Quotes About Empowerment

I am an activist and rapper from Afghanistan, and I use rap to speak out and help end child marriage.

Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.

The rain-cum-solar energy centre functioning in Chennai is a source of credible public information on rainwater harvesting and solar energy use. Such centres need to be replicated in all our cities, towns and block headquarters.

I use femaleness as another lens, so I don't even think all my creatures are women; I just think that I bring out the femaleness in them.

I'm very thankful for the platform I've been given, and I realize that I'm a role model for many people. I want to use my platform to spread positivity.

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

I used to tell myself that I will always be myself.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

I'm already used to being a target, so I'm building a castle with the stones people throw at me.

I used music as therapy and embraced being a cry baby.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

Information technology is a formidable enabler of freedoms. For example, it lowers barriers to freedom of expression and allows people to get a better grasp of their lives. It should not be used to reduce the freedom of people.

I just had that mindset to never settle. That's a credit to my pops, too. He used to say 'the sky's the limit' every time we talked.

I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.

Everybody was always telling me to rap and freestyle. I used to go to the park and spit on the mic. If I go to the park, they always gonna give me the mic.

Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.

I used to be a conscious person in terms of dressing, and I wasn't comfortable with my body, so I wouldn't dress in a certain way. Now I am comfortable, and nothing bothers me. Once you are comfortable, everything starts looking good.

I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.

Anybody who gives away money is mostly looking at things where they think they can make a difference. I'm trying to help people who helped me, educational institutions that helped me with scholarships, or organizations that were very useful to me in growing up.

Insurance is important for protecting the health of people and Ujjwala is quite useful to low-income women.

Dropbox is useful to anyone with a phone. That's, like, two billion people.

The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.

Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.

Really take the time to focus on finding your voice and making sure that whatever you're creating is of high quality and is useful for people in their everyday lives.