Quotes About Empowerment

Don't make a black woman take off her earrings".

Being alone doesn't necessarily mean that you're lonely.

Don't let people change who you are just be who you are with someone else.

You give away your power when you don't forgive.

A footstool is only needed when you need to get higher. Let your enemy lift you.

Never wish to be somebody else.

Root People may be hard to find because they're not trying to be seen. They do their work underground. But quietly and without fanfare, they provide help and support and nourishment. They are happy when I thrive.

It ain't what people call you. It's what you answer to.

God has not given us a spirit of fear.

The joy of The Lord really is strength.

there are people whose lives are tied into your dream. Own your stuff, own your business, own your way.

But what I found out, the longer you sit there and feel bad about yourself, the longer you're going to stay depressed.

The first thing you do to get over your depression is open up the curtains, put on some good music, take you a shower, get up, put on a good face, and open the door and go out and see the world. Everything that's kicking you, kick it back.

But God ain't going to do a thing until you get up and do something yourself. Everything starts with you.

I started writing to deal with my childhood abuse and to help me get over it. I began putting my thoughts on paper because I saw a show on Oprah where she said it was "cathartic" to write things down. Being from a substandard public school system, I didn't even know what "cathartic" meant. I had to look it up. So I started writing, but I didn't

When God asks, "What is that you have in your hand?" it's up to us to find the answer. Everyone's answer is different. But there is something we all share. Everything is already inside you. All you have to do is mine it. Dig down deep and discover your thing.

There ain't no man going to do something for you that you can't do for yourself. Get out there and make it happen for yourself.

If God can bring me out of poverty and despair and place me right in the middle of the life I'd always imagined, he can do the same for anyone. And that includes you.

The conviction that you can change your life starts with your own thinking. If you're going through dark times and it feels as if there's not enough breath and light in your soul to keep you moving higher, you need to believe that now is the time to break through. The seed of change starts as a thought in your own mind. You begin by believing it.

When people have never felt the power of their own wings, they can't imagine taking flight.

So my thing is, whatever you don't like, change it, but change it from the inside first.

You got to go get that stuff for yourself. You got to wake up every day and say, "I'm good enough, I deserve to be happy, I deserve to have all this good stuff coming my way." You can't depend on that to come from nobody else.

When you know your worth, when you know your value, your life changes and you change lives.

I tell you when it's over. You don't tell me when it's over. Now get up again and look out the window.