Quotes About Empowerment

Freedom in its existential struggle, greater than the tragedy of fear.

I really hate the implication that just because I'm small and female, I can't take care of myself.

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It doesn't matter from which ethnicity you belong to; but always be like bounded body and never let anyone suffer in pain. Lets throw hate away. Lets all think for just five minutes; what will happen if we are disunited and United?!

I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best.

Don't just survive while waiting for someone's revolution to clear your head.

Turn to yourselves rather than to your Gods or to your idols. Find what hides in yourselves; bring it to the light; show yourselves!

Maybe there's no secret essence inside me or you or them or anybody, nothing except what we choose for ourselves. No fate, no future, no past... except what we choose. No slaves and masters for the soul, only whores and politicians.

What more can I be doing to facilitate the team's progress and minimize its setbacks?

Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." It would follow, then, that no one can make you feel anything without your consent.

I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

I'm not sad at all about turning 40.

When a young woman tells me that she wants to become and actor, I say, 'No, be a writer. Or go to business school and learn how to run a studio.' The only real change will come from behind the scenes.

When I held that statuette, I felt as if I had won a triumph not just for myself, but for every other woman who'd struggled to overcome the same sort of background.

Sexiness is a state of mind -- a comfortable state of being. It's about loving yourself in your most unlovable moments.

I've always liked to go down a different path. Being a woman of color, I never followed a cookie cutter way.

Be a voice for all those who have prisoner tongues.

I don't say it often, but I'm proud of the woman that I turned out to be

Swallow your apologies. None of them mean shit to me. And all you have these days are bad days.

Been biting my tongue till it bleeds cry over things I don't need. My mother told me pick your battles wisely but you made me angry at the world so I chose them all.

There is no pride in a masculinst history that deprives half of humanity a pride of place, the dignity of who and what they are.

Don't ever diminish the power of words. Words move hearts and hearts move limbs.

Jason you can't control the universe and everything that happens in it, but you can control your reaction to it. You can control you, and how you choose to live each day.

And that's what Mahudin calls our thought control...an induced hypnosis of inferiority, destroying confidence and initiative, prolonging the period of tutelage which we would like to go on forever...