Quotes About Empowerment

On stage, we embrace every ounce of ourselves, we celebrate who we are, we are honest and live our truth - and we inspire people to do the same.

Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.

I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.

I would even say that my parents, and their friends in our community, thought of education as a kind of armor against racism.

There's no need for women and moms to go through this world alone without the help and the support from the businesses that do business in our communities and that generate success from the women in our community. That should not be happening.

Too often, when Muslim women speak out, some in our 'community' accuse us of 'making our men look bad' and of giving ammunition to right-wing Islamophobes.

We should go after our dreams and not be apologetic about it, but it's scary. Whether you want to work or not, you have to do what makes you a fuller person. You have to love yourself.

God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.

One of the achievements of our generation of feminists was to emancipate women from the division between being interested in clothes and appearance, and being serious and ambitious. I am of the first generation that could go to Biba, wear miniskirts and get a degree.

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

Anarchists believe we can run our lives without the government.

I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated, that we are indeed messy, that we do our best with what we've been given. We come into the world exactly like you. It's just that there are circumstances in the culture that are dictated and put on our lives that we have to fight against.

We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.

Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves.

I say to people that it's a choice that we make every day in our lives. Doesn't matter what you're going through. You don't have to be going through what I went through. But it's whether you decide to get up or stay down, whether you say 'yes' or whether you say 'no' to life. Basically, I decided to say, 'Yes.'

Of course our music has a lot of positive messages and we try to reach out to kids our age or people younger because we feel we get motivation by songs.

People come up to me and tell me how they were in a dark place and our music helped them out. It's mind-blowing. It's not just 'Rock Lobster' or 'Love Shack' - there's much more there.

Everything is harder for a woman in every kind of aspect and that's why we try to empower women with our music, our image and everything we stand for.

I don't think everyone is 100% comfortable in their own skin, but we're learning to love ourselves more and more, and that's what we represent in our music.

We have never been colonized, because of our attitude... We have the confidence, the moral authority, and our people are also enough to tell us what they want to tell us.

I believe in the greatness of our people.

An ordinary Turk, an ordinary Arab, an ordinary Tunisian can change history. We believe that democracy is good, and that our people deserve it.

There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.