Quotes About Empowerment

Stories can be windows, but also mirrors.

As they grabbed each other's arms and bounce-walked down the hall, I was sure no ghost mothers existed in their pasts. I truly believed they were standing steadily in the world.

Before the world as they knew it ended, they stepped out in heels with straightening-comb burns on their ears, gartered stockings, and lipstick for the first time.

Okurken eÄŸitimin kökünde insan? yaratmaya dair belli bir fikrin yatt???n? görüyorsunuz; sanki insan? yaratan eÄŸitimmiÅŸ gibi. Halbuki, iÅŸin doÄŸrusu insan? eÄŸitmek gereksizdir. Tüm eÄŸitimini kendisi edinir. Öyle ya da böyle eÄŸitir kendisini. Elbet bir ÅŸey öÄŸrenmek zorunda kalacak ve bunun için dirsek çürütecektir.

Whoever teaches without emancipating stultifies.

Keep telling yourself that, m'lady. Maybe you'll come to believe it.

But when it comes to the inner situation, there is only one ingredient: you. At least you must happen the way you want.

Your mind need not be controlled; your mind needs to be liberated.

Only when a person begins to experience a dimension beyond the physical within himself, then he can play with the physical world whichever way he wants, he can do the best that he can do in the outside world, but the interiority is undisturbed. If your body, if your mind, if your emotions, if your energies are not functioning the way you want them to, then this is the worst kind of slavery, because somebody else decides what should happen within you.

What people are suffering is their freedom. That's why it is so tragic. If

Fundamentally management is your ability to inspire people to do their best and that is all you can do. If everybody around you is doing his best, that is the best possible management that can happen.

Success, prosperity, well-being happens because you have made yourself capable of creating those things.

If you manage a situation, not just things happening there, people should feel elevated just being in that space. Above all, you must feel wonderful being there.

Be real with Father and resist the urges to crawl back into your shell and silently endure lifelessness.

Once you cease to be a master, once you throw off your master's yoke, you are no longer human rubbish, you are a human being, and all the things that adds up to. So, too, with the slaves. Once they are no longer slaves, once they are free, they are no longer noble and exalted; they are just human beings.

But no longer could I aks God what to do, since the answer, I was sure, would not suit me. I could do what suited me know, as long as I could pay for it. 'As long as I could pay for it.' That phrase soon became the tail that wagged my dog. If I had died then, it should have been my epigraph.

All masters of every stripe are rubbish, all slaves of every stripe are noble and exalted; there can be no question about this...Of course, the whole thing is, once you cease to be a master, once you throw off your master's yoke, you are no longer human rubbish, you are just a human being, and all the things that adds up to. So, too, with the slaves. Once they are no longer slaves, once they are free, they are no longer noble and exalted; they are just human beings.

try to walk like a lady and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

Be calm.  Do your breathing exercises.  You'll never be able to rule the universe if you can't control your own heartbeat.

You will lose your hand, find your fist and gain an ally. You will also meet your enemy face-to-face.