Quotes About Empowerment

Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.

My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability

I love Beyonce. She's so fierce. I also love Lily Allen, and she was an influence on my music.

I was fed by the music I listened to as a kid. Hip-hop fed me psychologically, spiritually, politically. I learned from that music.

I'm proud to be one. I feel a lot stronger, a lot sexier and I think that all of that is reflected in my music.

The best user experiences are enchanting. They help the user enter an alternate reality, whether it's the world of making music, writing, sharing photos, coding, or managing a project.

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.

Music isn't just for professionals. We delegate all of our music and our dancing and our art to professionals. It's silly. We should be doing our own dancing and drawing.

The Fact That You Have The Ability To Stand On Stage And Sing While You're Crying Is So Brave.

We mainly focus on putting music, art, dance, theater, all forms of art, back into the community, so the community can put it into the world.

I've taken all the scandals back and made them part of my story and my music.

You see all races in music, and in dance and theatre, so why can't we see it in fashion?

I am more than what they say I am.

Joys circular fulfillment was so persistent, when I was weak it gave me strength.

I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect.

Just knowing that through my music I actually inspire people is amazing for me and I find it very heartwarming.

I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny.

I had to leave home so I could find myself, find my own intrinsic nature buried under the personality that had been imposed on me.

Fish cannot drown in water. Birds cannot sink in air. This has God given to all creatures, to foster and seek their own nature. How then can I withstand mine?

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.

Sometimes it seems to me that I am capable of absolutely nothing, but that nature through me can accomplish a great deal.

We are meant to discover our authentic nature-the state of being in which we are inspired by ourselves, turned on, lit up, and excited about who we are.