Quotes About Empowerment

I want to own a comedy club.

There's a history of enslaved African-Americans having to make their slave masters comfortable. This business of what we call skinning and grinning - that is something African-Americans are very much cognizant of.

But every day I tell my story, and be comfortable with my story and be comfortable with what I've done, and what I did, and how I am today, it lessens the likelihood it will ever happen.

A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.

My actual desire is to be able to comfortably walk out of my house without any makeup on and feel as beautiful as I do when my makeup artist beats my face.

Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I'm on today.

Art was a way for me to express myself and for me to also escape because it was tough growing up as a child. We didn't have a lot of money. I was always creating. I was writing stories. I was doing comic books. I made my own universe.

I think that comic books have appealed to female readers for years.

I hate when I get asked, 'What's it like to be a woman in comics?'

I am an anomaly in my country. I hope, in the coming years, there will be more women like me.

You can't command people to do their best; they can only command that of themselves.

I wanted to cast a woman as second in command. NBC said no way.

The captain is not in total command of the match. The man who is possessing the ball at a given time is the captain.

No one has a right to comment on anyone's life or the choices I do or don't make.

I got one comment that I had a lot of double chins. I just laughed at it. I do have a double chin, so that's legit.

'Stree' is an entertaining film, but it has strong commentary about women.

I was angry and sad that people kept commenting on my pictures saying, 'You're too fat to wear that!' or 'Cover up! No one wants to see that!'

I get comments saying that I'm a leper, I control how my skin changes, I bleach my skin, my skin's burned. None of those are true.

I've had to learn not to read all the bad comments, or if you do, try and not take it into your soul, body, brain, and heart.

One person's comments can't bring down the entire Bhojpuri community or language!

That's my achievement actually - when a mother says that she didn't marry off her 14-year-old daughter because of me, or when a woman tells me that she continued to study after watching my dramas - those comments mean a lot.

There have been moments when comments have been made and because I'm strong enough to speak up about it, it's helped me. Having the strength and confidence to speak up about racism is what matters. Some people don't realise that what they are saying is wrong - they think it's acceptable.

The first commercial judge in Medina was a woman!

I was told 'You should just do commercials and Bollywood' and Bollywood would be said to me like it's a bad thing.