Quotes About Empowerment

You've got to get all three of them — your thinking, your believing, and your speaking — synchronized with the Word of God.

ISAIAH 10:27 27 . . . the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.

Spouses often point out each other's deficiencies. Instead, we should be each other's motivator. My husband touches my spirit, and I try my best to motivate him, too.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

I give you my wings.

I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world.

Responsibility cannot be assigned; it can only be accepted. If someone tries to give you responsibility, only you can decide if you are responsible or if you aren't.

I've sat through far too many "crying in the beer" sessions where all the energy for change was dissipated in the intensity of the complaining. Once you see an idea for improvement that makes sense to you, do it.

I made up my mind I'm not going to pay attention to what people think. I've done that too long—all my life. I'm not going to live that way anymore.

You understand? If you can read you can cook. You can always feed yourselves. You remember that.

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

There is something we don't like, though. It's when people call us Indians and then start calling sports teams and other things Indians. If we're going to have a false name, at least let us have it and then leave it alone. Don't start putting it on beer bottles and ice cream cartons and making it into something that embarrasses us and makes us look like fools. And don't tell us it's supposed to be some honor to us. We'll decide what honors us and what doesn't.

You know what I like about George Bush? He makes me feel like I could be president, too. No, he does. He's like the first guy, like, from my reading level, you know -- the first guy, like, from my math class to finally go out and do something!

Strength and courage are basic virtues for both followed and follower.

Equality begins with economic empowerment.

We're creating... an ownership society in this country, where more Americans than ever will be able to open up their door where they live and say, welcome to my house, welcome to my piece of property.

Using a man for his money is payback for men using women for, well, just about everything.

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them.

If feminism is in the water I drink, my mom's herstory is the dry land that pushes me to swallow.

I absolutely cannot ignore all that I have endured and achieved by settling for a passive life as Adam's Rib. Some may choose to call me a revel, but I am simply a woman searching for a happier life. One in which I am allowed to love myself, and not sacrifice that love in favor of society's values.

Who was going to tell these women that they didn't have to live this way? I was.

You have two things against you: you're black and you're a woman. Nothing is going to be easy.

We were two dark haired women who moved in overlapping circles of writers, queers, artists, and feminists.

We have also grown up with a body of literature created by women of color in the last thirty years-- Alice Walker's words about womanism, Gloria Anzaldua's theories about living in the borderlands and Audre Lorder's writing about silences and survival.