Quotes About Empowerment

Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility.

Use the noble gifts which God has given you!

McCabe's Law: Nobody has to do anything.

Don't change for nobody.

After 'Socha Na Tha' flopped, nobody wanted to work with me. I became very bitter and angry. So now when the industry and the audience accept me, I feel more empowered.

I didn't have to listen to nobody or look how anybody wanted me to look. I just wanted to be myself and look however I want.

I always have the ability to believe in myself when nobody else does.

Music is so important. Because in Chicago it's up to us to tell the stories nobody else will.

Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.

The only person that can define you is you. Nobody else can.

In the late '80s, I think my vision was chasing people out of the room. Nobody else thought like this. I was really this pro-sex feminist.

For me, beauty is me at the top of my game, going as hard as I can, without fear of what anyone else thinks. Believing in yourself when nobody else is believing in you is half the battle about anything.

You custom make your own car, ain't nobody else driving that.

Nobody else is going to protect yourself. You've got to protect yourself.

I'm just happy that as an African-American man, that 'Candyman' has once again been given the nod to enter people's consciousness.

I've been embracing the red lip and just wearing it every day, not just for going out. And I get so many compliments on it. I love the Julie Hewett Rouge Noir: it's sort of a forties red.

Do you, and the rest is background noise.

I have no boyfriend. No time. None send me over the moon, so I just kind of do my thing.

There were not enough women like Kay on TV and now there are none.

None of us has control over the economy, the job market, or anything else in the global sense. But we are 100% in charge of how we respond to challenges that come our way, be it the loss of a job, a career derailment, or some other disappointment.

I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'

I actually run a nonprofit that's all about giving people opportunities to be their own heroes and do their own work.

My sorority was filled with amazing, different, accomplished women across all fields. We had athletes, entrepreneurs. We had women who were killing it in the nonprofit world.

My husband and I eventually want to start a nonprofit and call it the Westboro Foundation. It was his idea, and I love it. I would love for Westboro to come to mean something besides 'God hates gays.'