Quotes About Empowerment

I remember seeing RuPaul in 'The Brady Bunch Movie,' when she says to Jan, 'Girl, you better work.' And I froze it in my mind forever.

I never really felt like a movie star until 'Police Woman.'

I loved all the other movies, and I loved all the other movie stars, but I was very aware of the fact that I didn't look like Marilyn Monroe - although I still wanted to be Marilyn Monroe. Then Josephine Baker popped up, and she wasn't the maid - she was the star of the show. To me, it was mind-blowing.

Dr. King is so inspiring, so impressive, so moving as a human being.

My goal from the beginning was, if I ever hit it it big, I would give back. And that continues to be my goal moving forward.

I don't think there's been many chances for people to see a black, gay, pop experience and that's what I want to have with my shows moving forward.

All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work.

You should not pay too much attention to what anyone tells you, including me. It's very, very important to follow your own map.

But I don't pay much attention to outside influences. People can say what they want. I always try to focus on my own environment.

I made all my generals out of mud.

We try to make children problem-solvers. That gave birth to solar-heated mud buildings, using greenhouses to grow things and ice stupas - artificial baby glaciers.

My mom never cared if I came home dirty from playing outside with my brother. If I got my dress muddy, or my jeans were ripped, or I got blood on something. But I think a lot of girls have a different experience.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.

Our next black president, I think, can be more like Muhammad Ali.

It is our job to ensure everyone feels included and empowered. We are living in a world that is increasingly diverse, and part of helping kids develop and be those successful leaders of tomorrow is helping them learn how to embrace multiculturalism and diversity.

I think that's an important thing, being able to see women as multifaceted beings that have many layers to them.

Why buy sanitary napkins from multinationals when we can make them at home and generate employment?

Black, white, Chinese, it don't matter - I've been told by multiple people that I'm very inspiring to them, and it makes them want to achieve whatever they can achieve.

I get to shift multiple markets. I get to shift economies. It's extremely liberating. I breathe differently.

You can't run a team with one leader. You need multiple leaders.

I know it's a cliche. But, like, literally, I want to create an empire of dozens of talent under me to take my power and multiply it so that I become bigger than myself.

I love radio interviews; it's all about multitasking and, like all good women, I can do that.

Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, 'This is really good, you should do this', She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked.

My poor mum had a lot of problems with me around that time. I was young but I'd been working for years, so if she asked me to clean my room I'd say, 'You can't tell me what to do after I've worked a 12-hour day.' It gave me a power that no one that age should have.