Quotes About Empowerment

For a long time, images of black men with big lips and a round head were used to make us feel inferior, but it doesn't need to be like that, we don't need to self'loathe. We can change the narrative.

I think what 'Four More Shots' wanted to do from the word go is to create a narrative where women have the agency. None of the characters are perfect. They have their flaws.

Early in my career, I was told I shouldn't try to work in a kitchen, that I should consider serving or managing instead. It was a sad narrative that was given to me, and it came from a society that didn't know better.

The narrative in 2020 must speak about gender equality which will only come from empowering the women who've been given the short end of the stick for far too long.

Even though I read voraciously as a child, I never saw myself in books. Without narratives to expand my ideas of who I could be, I accepted the stories others told me about myself, stories which diminished and belittled me and people like me. I want to write against that.

There are very very few narratives in mainstream that are actually about the woman.

We are used to women's narratives being defined through the male perspective. I challenge that as a concept.

Everybody has told the story of black people in struggle except black people. The black people in the struggle haven't had the means to tell the story historically. There were a million slaves, but you see very few slave narratives. And that is intentional.

We need new narratives in culture, and to do a better job of showing more diversity.

I felt free once I realized I was never going to fit the narrow mold society wanted me to fit in.

Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.

My dad worked with Mary Jackson very closely at one point. I knew Katherine Johnson as well. They were all part of this group of black engineers and scientists within this larger NASA community.

I think our sport is much better off with a successful female driver in NASCAR.

We gravitated to the idea of social entrepreneurs when it was a fairly nascent thing. We began to build the organization, focused on investing in and celebrating social entrepreneurs. Not long after that, we realized there was another opportunity to help bring them together and tell their stories.

The great thing about David Poile and Nashville is they believe in the people that they hire and they stick with the people that they hire.

My entire youth has been Nasty Gal. My entire future is Nasty Gal.

Hillary Clinton famously embraced the Trump-originated label 'nasty woman' as yet another way to show just how bad Donald Trump was to women.

I had to stay off Twitter for a little bit, and I had to not read the comments or look at my at mentions because I was getting a lot of nasty comments. At the end of the day, it does get to you, and it does make me sad.

I feel like what made 'Nasty' so fire was it was finally something that they couldn't take from me.

I'm called rude things, and people say nasty stuff. It's disrespectful, and as women we don't deserve that.

I try not to engage with those people who leave nasty comments.

What's really important? That I'm an individual, I guess. I am an individual - a strong one, too. I'm Natalie Cole. I gotta be me.

When you cast someone like Natalie Portman, the character can't just be the love interest.

I've said it before, but community colleges are the best-kept secret in the nation.