Quotes About Empowerment

if anybody asks you who you are, tell them you are a child of God." That message translated in such a way that you would never call yourself a slave or tell anyone that you were a child of slaves or that you belonged to a slave owner. As a child of God, you were not a mistake, or a product of lust or rape, but you were meant to be here, to learn, love, and be loved.

Some people refuse to accept the limits given to them by others.

Divisions among the oppressed, Hasan said, are gifts to the oppressor.

Prisons are prototypes for the future, an example of the disempowerment and exploitation corporations seek to inflict on all workers.

Journalism is about giving a voice to those who without us won't have a voice

I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black man who doesn't have a job, but you say to him, 'Look, you can make a difference in your child's life, just by reading to him for 30 minutes a day.' That's what I would like to do.

My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.

People have asked me if I had a miracle or a chance to change the way I look, I honestly know I would never do that.

We are a people who can bring about miracles if united.

I believe, a woman can always create miracles and foresee a lot of things that a man might not be able to do.

The civil rights movement was not a mirage... It was live and in living color.

Every girl/woman in the world has flaws. Instead of focusing on your flaws when you look in a mirror, focus on the parts of you that you love; try to do this every morning. You will ooze confidence all day long.

I also dance to music that makes me feel sexy in front of a mirror.

Looking in a mirror and telling yourself to feel better doesn't work when you're a girl, but finding something that you love to do, something that makes you a better person like volunteering to help others, will definitely make a difference.

I look in the mirror, and I'm a plus-size girl, but I got it going on.

It's really important to talk to yourself and look at yourself in the mirror and love who you are.

I look in the mirror, and I work with the brightest person I know.

When a woman buys shoes, she takes them out of the box and looks at herself in the mirror. But she isn't really looking at her shoes - she's looking at herself. If she likes herself, then she likes the shoes.

Sometimes I gotta look in the mirror and say, 'Hey, they're still saying you're too fat, but you're here! They gotta take it or leave it.' And in most cases, if they leave it, it's all good because they don't need to be in my space anyway.

It is important for women to feel beautiful when she looks in the mirror, and I tell women, 'If you don't feel beautiful, find one thing that you can look in that mirror and say, 'That is beautiful.'

Nobody told David Clarke what to think, what to feel, what to say, what to believe in, who to marry, what kind of food to eat - you know that thing that the race hustlers like to say defines your blackness? But yet every time I look in the mirror in the morning, I see a black guy looking back at me.

If I look in the mirror, my body is absolutely perfect. I think not enough women feel that way.

I definitely went through a period where I don't want to say I hated myself, but I hated what I saw in the mirror. I would try to cover it up, and it wasn't until I started doing sports - until after London 2012 - that I kind of started getting more of that confidence in my body and appreciating my body.

I was called 'fat' 200 times on shoots and had serious trouble fitting in the clothes at fashion shows. All these things break you down to a point where you look in the mirror and don't like what you see.