Quotes About Empowerment

I'm a black, gay man, and I should be able to live in a world where I'm able to live in the complexity of my identity in a way that is safe and secure, like everyone else.

I actually think 'Sex and the City' helped share how complicated it all is, to be a wife, a mother, and working, and a sexual being.

I like playing interesting, complicated women.

My private joke about 'Luke Cage' is that it's a bulletproof version of 'Lemonade,' and that, essentially, it's a concept album that has a video component.

Empowering yourself is an essential component to building mental strength and creating the kind of life you want to live.

Empowering yourself is an essential component to building mental strength and creating the kind of life you want.

I don't compromise at all on how people lead and manage other people. I don't want to work in an environment where people are belittled and berated.

I think that trans women have endured a lot and they compromise a lot when dealing with cis hetero men.

The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.

Ask not what the brain can do for the computer. Ask what the computer can do for the brain.

The thing that changed everything for me was the Firefox browser. I was pretty bad when it came to computers - I didn't know how powerful the internet could be until I discovered tabbed browsing.

Computing is no more about work - it's all about making work happen with computers.

I know that if I concentrate on making other people shine, I will shine. It is really about the other person, never about you.

It's not a bad idea to be single, so I can concentrate on my job.

We should do what Obama and Romney won't do: Concentrate on Americans.

We need to get back to the concept of taking the community with us.

I am interested in stories that concern women.

Women in the post-Fifties world were appendages. They existed to serve men. Their lives and concerns didn't matter, except insofar as they impinged on Important Male Things.

It's fun to cast away concerns you might have about what other people think about you.

I've come to the conclusion that life is for the taking and just too short to dwell on the negative.

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

We condemn any kind of abuse of Muslim women or women anywhere in the world.

You are not condemned for anything, but you are also not excused from anything. See these two ideas together at the same time, and a powerful third force for self-awakening is created.

If you're born a woman, you have a pre-existing condition.