Quotes About Empowerment

I was the first female cab driver in the city of Pittsburgh.

I never wanted anyone's pity.

Luke Cage isn't going to throw a pity party for himself. He literally says to himself, 'This is the world I'm in. These are the circumstances I have.' He's a self-made man. He's trying to continuously build, and that's what's interesting about him. He's a work in progress.

Three components - education, equality and empowerment - play an important and pivotal role in moving the country forward in every aspect.

I think what women think is sexy is what is sexy. Girls eating pizza are massively sexy.

Ghetto isn't a place. Ghetto is more in the mind and how you feel about your life.

It feels good to be in a place now where I can give back to my community.

I used to be bound by people who placed limits on what they thought I could do. Through that, I learned that if you want something, you have to be the one to go out and do it. If you don't ask for something, you're not going to get it.

We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.

I never expected to be the face of sexual harassment. But I never give up on anything. So when placed in a new, challenging situation, it's like, 'I'm going to give this 110% because that's what I've done my entire life.'

When governments fail us, what else can people do except take to direct action? When corporate power can so dominate government policy-making that whole communities are placed at risk, where else can people turn?

Growing up, I've always made a point to not be placed in a box.

Trans women, and women in general, have so many constraints placed on our bodies. As women, we are told not to show our bodies, and as trans people, we've been told not to exist.

The gym is one of the few places where I can just be myself without any hindrances and inhibitions.

Who needs MGM? Who needs any of these places?

Very often, people talk about mothers, and they think that mother has to lose her sexuality. Mother has to be plain. Mothers cannot be exciting. Mother should not be up on what's going on; she shouldn't know the jargon of the day. And I just find that so old-fashioned!

When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were going to grow up to be famous like Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, or Harriet Tubman. No one ever wrote about plain, normal, everyday girls.

I was fed up with being just plain Jane.

I always play girls who are quite traumatised, or a plain girl, but I'm happy with that.

I am a business owner. I'm a teacher. I think Justin's actually kind of plain, kind of nerdy. But when I morph into Alyssa, I'm like this... Well, this creature, everything that Justin couldn't be.

It appears that there is a genocidal plan against Black people.

A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family.

Don't forget, I was a musician long before I ever met Prince. That's a big difference between me and those other women he's worked with. We operate on the same plane, as equals.

One of the most gratifying things I get as an artist is when people watch me do these different demonstrations, and they in some way feel empowered by what I'm doing so they can confront their own fears. Maybe it's the fear of getting in an elevator; maybe it's the fear of going on a plane and seeing the world.