Quotes About Empowerment

Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.

Put a Post-It note on your mirror that says: 'Someone has to succeed. There's no reason why it shouldn't be me.' Repeat before every audition.

Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.

The most important characteristic that has allowed me to succeed is confidence. I have always been comfortable in my own skin, and even when I was just starting out in my career, had the strength and self-assurance to ask tough questions and push for answers.

The most important factor in determining whether you will succeed isn't your gender - it's you.

It is possible to take a population of students who are failing and whose schools are failing them, who are being written off as not being college material, and if they have the right support, they can all go to college and succeed.

Let's make the SAT and PSAT free so everyone has a chance to succeed.

There should be a class on sex education, a real sex-education class. There should be a class on police brutality. There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class on why people are hungry. But there are not. There are classes on gym. Physical education. Let's learn volleyball.

Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots

Is it a crime to fight for what is mine?

Niggers was the ones on the rope, hanging off the thing. Niggas is the ones with gold ropes,hanging out at clubs.

You never know how strong you can be until being strong is the only choice you have left." Tupac Shakur

if they take half the buildings that they use to praise god and give it to the motherfuckers who need god we'd be 'aight

Forgive but don't forget, girl keep your head up. And when he tells you you ain't nothing, don't believe him. And if he can't learn to love you, you should leave him.

I did not wanted to become the victim, so became the bully.

Tupac Shakur

where my culture I'm told holds no significance I'll wither and die in ignorance But my inner eye can c a race who reigned as kings in another place

And it's crazy, it seems it'll never let up But please, you got to keep your head up

They key is to learn how to keep free-floating fears from paralyzing you before you've begun.

Design can change how you look at yourself.

we steady thud of wind with lungs that empty moon, fill it back up with shine, feed my feet to pig iron anklets biting flesh where i am link. i will break. bleed, crack. shatter. crush. i'ma smash outta this choir, come up gasping new breath, my name burned clean, made mine

What I've learned is you treat women right.

Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.

You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.