Quotes About Empowerment

We need folks to help us, as opposed to, 'Let's find who to blame, and let's try to bury those people.'

Stiletto, I look at it more as an attitude as opposed to a high-heeled shoe.

I'm just living my life the way I want to live it, as opposed to the way people think I should live it.

As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.

I think that, as African-Americans, oftentimes we have to put ourselves on pedestals as opposed to really looking at ourselves and trying to understand ourselves and become better people. We always have to be on pedestals.

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

What I am trying to do is create a space for people to explore what they want to be, as opposed to fit into a label that they have been given.

I would love to see all agencies connect to models more for who they are and can be as opposed to what they've done.

I read an interview where someone said, 'It's a shame that anyone can make a movie now,' and I feel the exact opposite.

The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.

Some magazines are run from the top down, where the editor-in-chief decides what every article is going to be and who's going to write them, and then they're doled out. My idea is to do it the opposite way, to do it from the bottom up.

If anyone says, 'Let's have a girls' night out,' I will run in the opposite direction.

I think we still have a long way to go in understanding that feminist and femininity are not opposites.

Antiracism is direct opposition to any idea that supposes one race is better than any other in any respect.

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.

I always say that the largest party in every country - the largest opposition group in every country - is the youth party.

Science fiction isn't just thinking about the world out there. It's also thinking about how that world might be - a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they're going to change the world we live in, they - and all of us - have to be able to think about a world that works differently.

The more I think on the present condition of woman, the more am I oppressed with the reality of their degradation.

I want to be the voice of the people; black, white, everyday, oppressed people. A person trying to make it and to do it right.

An oppressed people will always rise.

Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!

In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.

People say, 'You should let your hair out; you shouldn't be oppressed - you're not in Malaysia anymore. You should show your curves and be proud of it.' But I am proud - it's my choice to cover up my body. I'm not oppressed - I'm free.

I find it really unique that the black community, who has been oppressed and is still oppressed, can find a way to oppress themselves, and ourselves, within it.