Quotes About Empowerment

Beneatha: You didn't tell us what Alaiyo means... for all I know, you might be calling me Little Idiot or something... ... Asagai: It means... it means One for Whom Bread--Food--Is Not Enough.

Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.

We must occupy the food system to create food democracy.

I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps.

At the World Food Programme we have recognized what a valuable tool food aid can be in changing behaviour. In so many poorer countries food is money, food is power.

We picked their cotton. We cooked their food. We nursed their babies. Now we can run their cities. We can run their states. We will run the country.

It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.

Don't even wait until you've lost a pound. The minute you can push the plate away with food still on it, give yourself a pat on the back.

There are no golden geese. There are only fat geese eating the food that could nourish more athletic opportunities for women.

I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.

Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.

Private sector development and the creation of small businesses spur investment, jobs, opportunity, and hope. It empowers the market to meet local needs, whether for food, basic goods, or services.

The key to economic security - to food security in Africa is empowering the women.

If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. I am proud to be not really a girl.

The wonderful thing about food is you get three votes a day. Every one of them has the potential to change the world.

I never, ever, restrict food, and I will never go on a diet ever again.

Local and regional food systems are about opportunity.

If we make wholesome, healthy food accessible and affordable for everyone, we make the choice to be healthy an easy one.

I don't think there's going to be a day when I don't think about food or my body, but I'm living with it, and I wish I could tell young girls to find their safe place and stay with it.

When I was young and growing up overweight, I believed the "eaten" was more powerful than the "eater," meaning the food was more powerful than I was.

We live in the most amazing period in human history. We can have unlimited energy, unlimited food, provide education for everyone, clean water, all the things that have held mankind back.

If you go on a diet and feel constrained, you are more likely to drop it. But if you see your food choices each day as part of a spectrum, then you are more likely to feel free and empowered.

Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That is why it is such a powerful weapon.

Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.