Quotes About Empowerment

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

There's no book to figure out how not to become a victim of police brutality.

I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.

If you are born black, and you don't accept your natural status as a victim, then the validity of your blackness is immediately called into question.

By not coming forward (about rape), you make yourself a victim forever.

I always want to give the victim a voice.

I want people to understand that tragedy and trial does not necessarily mean that you are a victim.

Most people are basically a victim of the circumstances of their life. They have things like 9/11, they have terrorism threats, they have new war threats, they have economy problems, and they think, 'What can I do? I'm basically a victim.'

'Stop playing the victim.' - unless you've been cast in a community theater production of 'Law & Order: SVU,' I'm not sure why anyone would choose to play victim.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

I want to create a platform for those people who want to come to this field. These people will face hurdles and problems that don't allow them to show their talent. So I want to make a platform that they can easily access, and then, at least, they won't be a victim of these problems.

If I don't see myself as a victim, then I'm not a victim.

Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are, and will be doing quite well - all on their own, without handouts, affirmative action, and other patronizing measures.

You can't be a victim and heal.

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.

I didn't want people to know me as a victim.

If you're not a victim, and you don't need help, then you're definitely seen as a threat as a woman.

A lot of negative stuff has happened to me - that's why I'm tough - but I don't want people to be like, 'Oh, poor Becky,' because I'm not a victim.

I don't do damsel in distress very well. It's hard for me to play a victim.

I'm a fighter and not a victim. Think of yourself and make the most of life.

I am not going to play the victim.

In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.

The big thing I learned from Chris Rock was not to be a victim of show business. Don't let show business push you around.

Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.