Quotes About Empowerment

If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.

You may not control all of the events that happen to you but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I am with you kid. Let's go."

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

There is a place in you that you must keep inviolate, a place that you must keep clean. A place where you say to any intruder, "Back up, don't you know I'm a child of God."

Forgiveness is the greatest gift you can give yourself.

Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.

It was wonderful to receive from my President, the Freedom Award and to know that I am a member of the group most recently bought and sold with everybody's agreement, and the people who longed for freedom. When I accepted that award, I thought of all the people who had come from all over the world to find freedom in the United States. I accepted the award for African Americans, every slave who got off every boat, every European, and every Asian who came here searching for freedom.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few days the man was killed. In my child's mind--seven and a half years old--I thought my voice had killed him. So I stopped talking for five years.

Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

Love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. A Brave and Startling Truth.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

You may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I'll rise.

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. (Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.