Quotes About Empowerment

We have to stop delivering the curriculum to kids. We have to start discovering it with them." I

Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

I'll bet you the time ain't far off when a woman won't know any more than a man.

Never in our history was we able to blame someone else for our troubles.

You can give people a fish; you can teach them how to fish; or you can create the conditions where people would teach themselves to fish.

Books have played a role in almost every one of the world's great civil and human rights movements, but only because people who read them decided to act. Reading brings with it responsibility.

When I think back on all the refugee camps I visited, all over the world, the people always asked for the same thing: books. Sometimes even before medicine or shelter--they wanted books for their children. (quoting his mother)

all over the world, the people always asked for the same thing: books. Sometimes even before medicine or shelter—they wanted books for their children.

It was the women of afghanistan,my mother believed,who-once they'd been granted access to books and education- would be the salvation of the country

a pamphlet that she'd been handed when she was visiting an African country where people were able to vote freely for the first time. The pamphlet was called The Ten Commandments for Voters,

1. You have nothing to fear. Remember that your vote is secret. Only you and your God know how you vote. 2. People who promise things that they never give are like clouds and wind that bring no rain: do not be misled by promises. 3. Your vote is your power: use it to make a difference to your life and your country.

A Thousand Splendid Suns, the new book by Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner.

Samuel Smiles's 1859 bestseller Self-Help (with illustrations of Character and Conduct).

Girls Like Us by the journalist Sheila Weller,

I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.

I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.

You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.

If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.

When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.

Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more.

Try to see yourself with power. Not power so that you can get even with anybody else. Power so that you can become even with your vision- Maya Angelo

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

It does not matter how smart you are, or how pretty, or if you have money and many friends. If you do not have courage, you will never blossom into the flower you were meant to be." "I