Quotes About Empowerment

My bulimia was my addiction. Hurting myself was my addiction... The music is what saved me. That's the only thing I can trust.

A lot of songs are empowering because everybody who has been through a hard time in a relationship or in their lives can relate to it.

Girl power is about loving yourself and having confidence and strength from within, so even if you're not wearing a sexy outfit, you feel sexy.

Peace is an attitude; change is the action.

Everyone May Have A Different Source Of Inner Strength, Keep Close To Yours.

If you believe you can, and believe it strongly enough, you will be amazed at what you can do.

Hören Sie auf niemanden, der Ihnen sagt, Sie sollten nicht allein trinken.

Deal with yourself as a individual worthy of respect, and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can't drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the dexterity of our feet. If we can't have ham, we will boil chitterlings; if we are given rotten peaches, we will make cobblers; if given scraps, we will make quilts; take away our drums, and we will clap our hands. We prove the human spirit will prevail. We will take what we have to make what we need. We need confidence in our knowledge of who we are.

Black love is black wealth

They tell me I should squeeze my hopes into a miniature box of their design. But I'm not so inclined.

You can be pretty, and have a boyfriend, and still be smart, all at the same time. You don't always have to choose.

Don't bother about what people say, mija," he told me. "Let them talk. They only prove their ignorance." I know my father's right. I also know that words have teeth. Sometimes I get tired of the bite marks.

Choose whatever box you like, Mike. Just don't put me in one, son. Believe me, I won't fit.

Love is not me being who you want. Your definition is a whirlpool trying to suck me in and I'm drowning. Don't you see?...It's time...Time you stop telling me who to be, how to live. This is my portrait. You chose your canvas. Let me choose mine.

Do something about it, or shut up.

Is there more to me? Sure. Kids yell 'albino boy.' I don't turn around. Choose the name you answer to. No one can do that but you.

I'd pretend their words were water and let them roll off my back. Now, I'm nobody's duck, and their words stung a whole lot more than water.

The day she clips her way out of her cocoon, the only sound she plans to hear is a deafening cheer.

MY BLACK ME My father fed me Invisible Man, Native Son, No Longer at Ease, Black Man's Burden, and the more I read, the madder I got, and I already had reason to scream, but my father kept me dreaming of what words I might bring to the world.

Why let Angela call me something that I'm not? Or let her tease me? Bad enough the kids at school kick my heart around

I do like Manny, crank up the inside volume, listen to my dreams as I walk through the school halls, I choose what words to let in.

The Guru Granth dramatically dispels conventional taboos against female pollution, menstruation and sexuality. Menstrual bleeding is regarded as an essential, natural process. Life itself begins with it. The first Guru reprimands those who stigmatize the garment stained with menstrual blood as polluted (GG: 140).

Step up and don't be afraid