Quotes About Empowerment

He had given Israel back the notes to songs. The words would be according to their own dreams, but they would sing. They had songs and singers. They might not be absolutely free inside, but anyway he had taken from them the sorrow of serving without will, and had given them the strife of freedom. He had called to their memories the forgotten words of love and family. They had the blessing of being responsible for their own.

If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

What would slaves want to be free for anyway? They are being fed and taken care of. What more could they want?

You mean uh whole town uh nothin' but colored folks? Who bosses it, den? Dey bosses it deyself. You mean dey runnin' de town 'thout de white folks? Sho is. Eben got a mayor and corporation. Ah sho wants tuh see dat sight.

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear. Zora Neale Hurston

You tries tuh be so much-knowin'. You got tuh learn how tuh speak when you spokin to, come when youse called. Ah ain't got tuh do but two things--stay black and die, Sister Berry snapped.

Ah ain't got tuh do but two things--stay black and die, Sister Berry snapped.

Ah'm uh bitch's baby round lady people.

Lawd, look at Tookie switchin' it and lookin' back at it! She's done gone crazy thru de hips.

Ah wanted to preach a great sermon about colored women sittin' on high, but they wasn't no pulpit for me.

Once upon uh time, Ah never 'spected nothin', Tea Cake, but bein' dead from the standin' still and tryin' tuh augh. But you came 'long and made somethin' outa me.

Put dat in yo' pipe and smoke it.

Once Africans could all fly because they never ate salt. Many of them were brought to Jamaica to be slaves, but they never were slaves. They flew back to Africa. Those who ate salt had to stay in Jamaica and be slaves, because they were too heavy to fly.

Tain't in uh man tuh kiss foot long. Mouf kissin' is on uh equal and dat's natural but when dey got to bow down tuh love, dey soon straightens up.

I began to worry a bit. Ella kept on hurling slurs. So I said, Come on, Big Sweet, we got to go to home. Nope, Ah ain't got to do nothin' but die and stay black.

Zora, why do you think dese li'l slim women was put on earth? Couldn't tell you to save my life. Well, dese slim ones was put here to beautify de world. De big ones, musta been put here for de same reason. Ah, naw, Zora. Ah don't agree wid you there. Well then, what was they put here for? To show dese slim girls how far they kin stretch without bustin'.

Many people aren't aware of the teachings of Elijah Muhammad who taught some of our most significant conscious, black thinkers of our times. "He

I come from a very matriarchal family, which is the case for a lot of Aboriginal families.

We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country.

There is no power above people power.

Tite gives me absolute freedom to do what I have always done throughout my career.

Let me be abundantly clear: I am black, and I am a woman, and I embrace both of those facts.

They don't pay me enough to take any racial abuse. If you come up to me and say something racially, I'm going to take your head off.

You can still get results without abuse.