Quotes About Empowerment

When people watch 'Power' and they find out the showrunner is black, it's not surprising. What is surprising is that I am a woman and my background is not particularly urban.

I would love to play an urban working girl.

In India, while there are some initiatives working with and for adolescent girls, there are too few state sponsored programmes for adolescent boys, be it rural or urban.

There are not many girls doing reggaeton or urban music in the Latin music industry.

Urban Indian Organizations are a lifeline to Native Americans living in urban areas across California.

I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.

I seen women take this kind a' help from a man with a look a' relief on their faces. I wondered if these women knew how much easier their lives would be if they did all this stuff for themselves.

Women are pleasured treasures.

A woman should never go so far with someone, that she cannot come back alone...not for love..not for society…not for herself. It took me so long to find my way back.

Use your unique gifts and talents to make a difference in the world.

And that makes us (black women) feel like we have spokespeople, because everybody we encounter feels they have a piece of you and can tell you how to live your life

Gender roles suck, " says Swift Fox.Then you should stop playing them, thinks Toby.

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND BEG EVERYONE... TO HELP RESCUE ALL IMPRISONED WOMEN.

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE...AND REMIND EVERYONE...OF THE FATE...OF THE ENSLAVED...YAZIDI WOMEN

Fear will do one thing and one thing only: hold you back

Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong…it is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum not as two opposing sets of ideas.

He stared at her a moment longer, then laughed softly. "I wouldn't love you if you were any weaker, " he said, and let go of her.

Women in India experience much worse suffering, humiliation and slavery in all spheres than even the untouchables.

A daughter is chiseled to chisel the world.

Women have a role to play in global development.

Those who treat the muslim woman not as an individual but as a symbol either of Islamic chastity or secular liberalism are guilty of the same sin : the objectification of women

A man is never so weak as when a woman is telling him how strong he is.

If a man hears much that a woman says she is not beautiful.

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.