Quotes About Empowerment

Often much of my work is very optimistic, or solution-based. I have always believed that art is a tool for transformation, and something that should give people some kind of agency.

There's so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring. In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan.

The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.

I invest because I'm really a firm believer in letting the artist make their work, if you choose to work with an artist then you give them the go-ahead.

I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!

The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white folks working for me.

The best work we can all do is create the highest vision possible for our lives and be led by that vision to the greatest good.

What I have learned in my life and work is that the more I am able to be myself, the more it enables other people to be themselves.

I truly believe that a woman can have anything she wants - if she's willing to do the hard work it takes to get it.

His Unique Selling Position was to make the world work for 100% of humanity. .

The question of woman's work in its economic aspect is really one not so much now of woman's rights as of woman's mights. Pretty much anything she wants to do, a resolute girl may now do.

If you are not feeling good about yourself, then you work out. But you do it for you.

I must know every aspect of my personal finances. Managing your money will help you make your money work for you.

I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.

My biggest advice for women writer/directors is to always be attempting to make work that avoids pandering to the conceptions that the industry has put in place for "women directors."

You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.

I have always known that I wanted to work with youth through the arts and I believe the arts can help young people cope with hardship.

Culturally, it is commonplace for African women to work.

My people are at the core of everything I do, and I recognize the importance of giving them the flexibility to balance work around their personal lives.

Leading by fear is a lot of companies' approach, and a horrible way for people to exist in their lives, when most of your life is spent at work.

You cannot be effective if those who work for you are not. So building their effectiveness ought to be a priority.

Everyone has a story that makes me stronger. I know that the work I do is important and I enjoy it, but it is nice to hear the feedback of what we do to inspire others.

Follow your passion. Help people along the way. Work very very hard and always come prepared.

I'm a man without a corporation.