Quotes About Empowerment

Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression.

Dear Momma?Wherever you are, if ever you hear the word nigger again, remember they are advertising my book.

Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.

Even though he understood the depths of racism and black oppression, Ali lived his life as a free man—a free loving and lovable man.

When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.

By contrast, Blanche K. Bruce was the real deal. Born into slavery in Virginia, Bruce was freed by his master and studied at Oberlin College before becoming a successful farmer and landowner. He is the only former slave to have served in the U.S. Senate.

They have turned millions of minorities into disposable people, whose lives don't matter to them and whose primarily utility is their fruitful dependency on the Democrats. As long as the Democrats get their votes, they are happy with them and done with them.

Not all writing is political or revolutionary, but the very act of giving yourself permission to write, to speak, to share the truth no matter whether the truth you understand is the truth others want to acknowledge, is brave, powerful, and important.

Quien defiende un derecho defiende su libertad. (La gran marcha)

She is a famous artists' model who claims to have been christened Topaz - even if this is true there is no law to make a woman stick to a name like that.

Teaching which does not sound as if it is forcing something on you is not true teaching.

Parting message: Don't be afraid of shining a light. Don't be afraid of being powerful. Don't be afraid of being more special.

You are worthy of loving yourself. You've done great things in the past. You'll do great things in the future. You're doing a great thing now. All will be revealed to you. You are Divine. Rejoice!

I'm not looking to wear the white man out with my ability to suffer.

I will read," she said. "But I don't want you to choose anything that has men inside women, quote-quote, or men entering women. 'I entered her.' 'He entered me.' We're not lobbies or elevators. 'I wanted him inside me,' as if he could crawl completely in, sign the register, sleep, eat, so forth. Can we agree on that? I don't care what these people do as long as they don't enter or get entered.

She wanted to create her future, not enter a state already shaped to her outline.

How can people live their whole lives without knowing the names of their own parts of the body?

Once you're a made man, you don't need the constant living influence of sources outside yourself.

Initiative doesn't cost a thing, feel free to take all you want.

I no longer agree to treat myself with disrespect. Every time a self-critical thought comes to mind, I will forgive the Judge and follow this comment with words of praise, self-acceptance, and love.

If you can see yourself as an artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation, then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself?

People are starving for love, not knowing their heart is a magical kitchen. Open your heart. Open your magical kitchen and refuse to walk around the world begging for love. In your heart is all the love you need. Your heart can create any amount of love, not just for yourself, but for the whole world.

Ne svi?a li nam se vlastita pri?a, možemo je promijeniti. Jer mi smo, na kraju krajeva, njezini autori.

Ono što vjerujete o sebi projicirate na druge ljude i to je ono što drugi vjeruju o vama. Dakako, i oni se prema vama ponašaju u skladu s tim, što samo daje snagu vašem uvjerenju da niste vrijedni. A što je istina? Istina je da jeste vrijedni: svatko je vrijedan.