Quotes About Empowerment

Every man is the author of his own life.

she'd seen the spark in his fledgling soul, and no one can ever amount to anything in this life without someone else to believe in him.

No importa lo que digan los demás; lo único importante es mantenerse en pie.

Non parlo tanto del desiderio, quanto della consapevolezza, della scoperta che due persone, tramite il desiderio, possono creare una realtà più potente di quella che ciascuna potrebbe creare da sola.

Sometimes just making yourself at home is revolutionary.

Crip up or grip up Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Criptum vexo vel carpo vex.

I refuse the blindfold and take the most glorious toke ever taken in the history of pot smoking. Call every racially profiled, abortion-denied, flag-burning, Fifth Amendment taker and tell them to demand a re-trial, because I'm getting high in the highest court in the land.

Unmitigated Blackness is simply not giving a fuck. Clarence Cooper, Charlie Parker, Richard Pryor, Maya Deren, Sun Ra, Mizoguchi, Frida Kahlo, black-and-white Godard, Céline, Gong Li, David Hammons, Björk, and the Wu-Tang Clan in any of their hooded permutations.

I can think of a more despicable word than 'nigger'", I volunteered. […] "Like what?" "Like any word that ends in –ess: Negress. Jewess. Poetess. Actress. Adultress. Factchecktress. I'd rather be called 'nigger' than 'giantess' any day of the week.

one's self-worth comes from how one chooses to navigate that space.

I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something I can do." I was confused again.

Generally they are accustomed to giving resources to those from the non-Western world and find it very difficult to receive. Sometimes this is perceived as an attitude of superiority complex. We want those from the North American church to partner with us in ways that are mutually benefitting and uplifting; that way we don't think of them as benefactors.

What does it mean to live in what Fareed Zakaria calls a "post-American world"?' He summarizes the main idea of his book by that name in the first sentence: "This is a book not about the decline of America but rather about the rise of everyone else."2

The divinity is there, within you; have faith that it is so and entrust yourself to it.

When John Quincy Adams in the Netherlands was placed with elementary students and belittled because he did not speak Dutch, either the author or John Adams accuses school authorities of "littleness of soul".

Great salespeople use questions to help buyers learn something about themselves.

Without an informed electorate, politicians will continue to use the bottom billion merely for photo opportunities, rather than promoting real transformation.

Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them.

Great harm comes when we keep our young people in a bubble in an effort to shield them from hard questions, or when we dismiss their struggles and exhort them to "pray harder," "read the Bible" or "just believe.

Sing the melody line you hear in your own head. Remember, you don't owe anybody any explanations, you don't owe your parents any explanations, you don't owe your professors any explanations.

We can be the generation that no longer accepts that an accident of latitude determines whether a child lives or dies. But will we be that generation?

Facts, like people, want to be free — and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.

Every day you preach to yourself a gospel of your loneliness, inability, and lack of resources or you faithfully preach to yourself the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

God's grace frees you from having to deny your weaknesses.