Quotes About Empowerment

Women must think strategically about creating ongoing pressure for change.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!

In danger there is great power.

Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored. Better to die than to live in slavery.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.

Our mothers and our grandmothers, some of them: moving to music not yet written.

Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage.

No man is demolished but by himself.

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.

Let us not forget that among [women's] rights is the right to speak freely.

I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect 'cause I like me.... I think I'm kind of cool.

To make the choice for independent survival, the great man's wife has to become convinced of her own intrinsic worth.

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Everybody is talented, original, and has something important to say.

I is who I is.

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

Every man must at last accept himself for his portion, and learn to do his work with the tools and talents with which he has been endowed.

I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there- you build yourself. Those are the high ones, the thick ones, the ones with no doors in.

I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.

They are able because they think they are able.

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are-not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within-that you can begin to take control.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.