Quotes About Empowerment

My aesthetic is very black.

I'm not going to be one of those people who says, 'I'm a showrunner; I'm not a black showrunner.' I'm black when I go to sleep. I'm black when I wake up, period. It doesn't affect my perspective on everything, but at the same time, it's who I am, and I'm proud of it.

I don't let people affect me.

God is putting me in a position to affect people.

One of my strong points is that, no matter what anyone says about me, it will not affect me, it's because I believe in my ability and what I can achieve.

I've done a lot of work on that so that no matter where I am in a team, whatever role I'm playing, it doesn't affect how I think about myself.

What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.

You should be able to do anything you can afford as an adult.

If people were able to afford to eat nutritious food, I think they would make better choices.

Just keep saying yes to everything - until you can afford to say no.

It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.

I'm an African American.

In 'Bayou Magic,' I write about African goddess-mermaids who accompanied slaves to America.

I am African-American, and I am a proud African-American. I just don't like to put myself in a box and say, 'I'm an African-American actress.' I am an American actress, and I can do any kind of role.

Even though I'm an African-American woman, it's not different from any other Bachelorette.

If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him. You take a look!

For many, hair is just hair. It's something you grow, shape, adapt, adorn, and cut. But my hair has always been so much more than what's on my head. It's a marker of how free I felt in my body, how comfortable I was with myself, and how much agency I had to control my body and express myself with it.

The best agent for me is myself.

I know my value. Nobody has to tell me my value. I know my value, so no team, no person, no agent, can tell me my value, and I believe in myself.

I've never been scared of aging.

Not any amount of aid is going to move Africa forward.

He always told me I'd score goals; Alan Pardew gives me a lot of confidence.

It was the Control album that was really about what I wanted to do.

I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.