Quotes About Empowerment

I founded my label last November called Icy, and once my foundation is laid, I'd love to go back and help other artists and give them the opportunity that I wasn't given at a younger age.

More than' is the tagline of the company LeBron and I started in November 2014 called Uninterrupted. 'More Than' is Uninterrupted's 'Just Do It' or 'Think Different.'

I'm interested in harnessing the good will and distributed power of people, including novices.

Everyone knows I'm a lash girl by now. When I don't have my lashes, I feel naked.

Every now and then, I deserve to say what I feel.

Every now and then, I have these moments where I feel somebody needs to be told to just stop. Sometimes, they would write nasty things, but generally, I just don't give them time and attention. I just skim and read but don't go through the comments completely.

Nowadays, women are looked at as equal to the men when it comes to competing, and I think that's a really cool message to send to little girls and show them that whatever they want to do, they can set their mind to it and make it happen.

Nowadays, I could not care less about making other people like me. I'm a good person, I don't need to do that anymore.

Nowadays, so many girls are really harsh online and always bringing each other down, so one of the things we try to do is help bring them back together.

Nowadays, you cannot tell your kids what to do. In fact, you have to listen to them. As a parent, give them great education and values and they will decide what to do in life.

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

I would be nowhere without martial arts. It's a passion.

The Internet is just a chance to do something. Nowhere else can you go, 'I have an idea, I can write this idea, and I can execute this idea.'

I felt I had to choose between being pretty or smart or athletic, and stick to it because if you try to do more than one, you have nowhere to belong. Then music was a boy's world and a lot of times men assumed I didn't know what I was doing because I was young and female.

Christiania has a lot of strong, nuclear families. It gave us a sense of empowerment and belonging and richness. We had so much love; we were never in doubt that we were wanted in this world.

Look out for Number One. If you don't, no one else will.

My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.

Math is the great equalizer. If you can do the numbers, the boys have to respect you.

Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.

Girls can be anything they want to be. Why be a nurse, for example, when you can be a doctor?

I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.

When I started, it was all meter maids or the sassy nurse, or the sassy receptionist in the hospital. And I felt like: Are those the only jobs that large, black women have?

For me, I always nurse out in public. It never crossed my mind, because I was taking care of my child, and I was living my life. We need to know as women that that is normal and great and beautiful and OK. And I want to be part of that conversation - not making anyone feel wrong if they don't do it.

I tend to play nurses and waitresses and policewomen.