Quotes About Empowerment

The only time I was really free was when the director said 'Action' in front of a camera or on the stage, and that's when I flew.

Why shouldn't there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?

I grew up looking for myself onscreen and never could find myself. And I believe that I am supposed to be Toula to show people that it's O.K. to be different.

For me, like, obviously, I want to see myself onscreen.

When we have trans actors play trans characters, people can look onscreen and say, 'OK, this is what trans is.'

I'm trying to be what I want to see more of: Black women onscreen.

I was very insecure growing up, and even though I'm not that girl anymore, I think that the passion, that not feeling pretty and being insecure, is where my soul came from. And from early childhood, I let it free onstage.

I'm really fond of strength onstage and I'm not a small person. I'm 5'9'' and 190 lbs. - you can't really go on stage and be too shy.

It's really empowering when you see yourself represented in entertainment and, especially, onstage when you're talking about how this country came to be.

Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act; if it weren't, more women would do it.

When I get onstage, I automatically feel beautiful.

Me in my music and onstage - that's me without any fears of judgement; that's me when I'm shining.

You know how Beyonce has Sasha Fierce? That's how I am. When I go out onstage, I become a different person.

There were not a lot of women in the theater department - it was really run by men, and so the message was that women can be onstage, but women can't really be backstage.

There's something about getting onstage in a play where the actor tells the story, beginning, middle, and end, the way they want to tell it. For me, it's the most powerful place to be, and it's the most empowering place to be.

When Kehlani brought me out onstage, I really enjoyed that. I was just appreciative for her to think of me and bring me out woman to woman, introducing me to a whole new audience to me. It was just showing that I was appreciated for what I'm doing, that some people mess with me, and I'm all over the place.

Girl bands still do just copy the way men move onstage. To me, that is so backwards, so un-radical.

If you were 12, and Beyonce was up onstage saying to you, 'You get to do exactly whatever you want to do,' that would be awesome. I wish she said it to me when I was 12.

It's not about me. It's about what I'm doing for kids. When I walk out onstage, there's 15,000 kids that, to me, represent potential.

Coming onto the Jordan Brand absolutely gives more attention to women's basketball and basketball in general.

There are still times when I am walking up, and I look at the Capitol, and I think, 'Oh my goodness.' Right now, I am kind of scared to go onto the floor and speak. Once I get used to it, though, they probably won't be able to keep me off there.

Unless you can't take care of yourself or stuff like that, I'm always standin' for you to hold onto life as much as you can.

I think with how society makes me feel like I should grasp onto the inner strength of me being a woman, and I felt like it was all just very much married into what I'm listening to, what I'm writing, how I'm feeling.

I became conscious in later life that I had been given an education that enabled me to do all kinds of jobs, but often, jobs weren't open to me.