Quotes About Empowerment

There would have to hover above him, like the stars in a full sky, a vast configuration of images and symbols whose magic and power could lift him up and make him live so intensely that the dread of being black and unequal would be forgotten; that even death would not matter, that it would be a victory

How soon will someone speak the word the resentful millions will understand: the word to be, to act, to live?

Having no claims upon others, I bent the way the wind blew, rendering unto my environment that which was my environment's, and rendering unto myself that which I felt was mine.

Terror traps us all from time to time, but the important thing is not to let it build walls around us.

he lay down in the middle of the field in the sun on his back and closed his eyes, and felt wind, sun, the ground below him...The sun confused him, with its warmth, the brightness. He dozed throughout the rest of the afternoon. His life meant something. he was his own man, belonged to no one.

Fair means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.

Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world.

You must carry on my spirit. It can no longer be carried by a god. It must be taken up by all of you. - Pan

Scrawny? Baby, I invented scrawny. Scrawny is the new sizzling hot.

Rainbows. Very Macho! ~Leo Valdez

I'll succeed,' Hazel promised. 'And Hecate? I'm not choosing one of your paths. I'm making my own.

Your voice is your identity. If you don't use it, you're halfway to Asphodel already.

It's been my observation I said, "that you humans are more than the sum of your history. You can choose how much of your ancestry to embrace. You can overcome the expectations of your family and your society. What you cannot do, and should never do, is try to be someone other than yourself–Piper McLean.

Remake the wild, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world. You cannot wait for anyone else, even a god, to do that for you.

Piper was maybe the most impressive. She fenced with the giantess Periboia, sword against sword. Despite the fact that her opponent was five times larger, Piper seemed to be holding her own. The goddess Aphrodite floated around them on a small white cloud, strewing rose petals in the giantess's eyes and calling encouragement to Piper. 'Lovely, my dear. Yes, good. Hit her again!

Yeah! Bring it on lake!

Hazel screamed at the top of her lungs, but it was a scream of delight. For the first time in her life-in her two lives-she felt absolutely unstoppable.

I'm not choosing one of your paths, I'm making one of my own.

Oh, but I don't abide by your time frame, giant, Reyna said. A Roman does not wait for death. She seeks it out, and meets it on her own terms.

Maybe it's time you come out of the shadows

That's more like it. Let's turn this tide!

That wasn't my future I destroyed,' she assured herself. 'I make my own future.

Charge!' Sadie barrelled into the clearing, her staff in one hand and her Greek scroll in the other. I glanced at Annabeth. 'Your new friend is awesome.' Then I followed Sadie.

Big brothers are the ones who are supposed to pull their punches. Little sisters—well, we should be able to hit as hard as we like, shouldn't we?