Quotes About Empowerment

When you earn your own money you feel much better about yourself.

In some places, women get paid 75 percent of what men earn for doing the same job, working the same hours, and I do not believe that is right.

Black women have earned the right to be basic.

The money I have earned has given me the opportunity to give back to the people who do not have the same opportunities as me.

I realized I was the one doing all the training, earning the money, and my parents were living off of me.

If you're earning equal pay to a man, you get respect. It shouldn't be that way, but it is.

The idea of men earning and women waiting at home for them, is over.

I just tell young people to find their way. Keep your eyes open. Keep your ears open and keep your heart open.

I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas.

I eat out alone a lot.

You should be comfortable eating by yourself or in public.

We have a responsibility to do better as black people in this country. I don't care how white people look at you - I care that we have a one-trillion-dollar spending base, and if you want to see change, you have to start to focus on, economically, how can we change our communities.

Growing up, I dreamt of being economically independent because I always believed women should be so.

I wanted to be my own editor, and by 'editor,' I mean unedited-or.

Everything has to do with education: If you educate the girls, you educate the family, the community, and society, in general.

Educate yourself, because this society is geared to have us hate each other. The longer we hate each other, the more we can't come together as humanity and look at the knuckleheads screwing it up for everybody.

I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.

Always educate yourself.

Teachers alone can't educate young people.

One of my goals is to educate myself more as a woman in this business.

If people are educated, they will know what they need.

Education is everything. It's for everyone. We all need to be educated.

I love a smart, educated woman.

Fear has never educated a child. Fear has never built a home.