Quotes About Empowerment

It's okay, it's cool to be Indian and there are cool people that are Indian and doing really well. It's okay to be brown and cool.

Women today are respected as athletes now and that's a really cool thing to see.

Chrissie Hynde is the coolest woman alive, and no man can have her.

Octavia Spencer is, I think, one of the coolest people you will ever meet.

That's where I got my passion for the game, watching the WNBA on TV. Cynthia Cooper, Raise the Roof, We Got Next, I was into all of it.

As a community, we're fighting for Asians to play Asian roles. And then there's the other battle, which is Asian Americans playing roles that aren't written for Asians, and I think that's something that completely should happen; Why can't an Asian American male just play a leading cop figure... or the Matt Damon roles?

I have cellulite - and had it even when I was at my absolute thinnest. I'm never not going to have cellulite. People need to just accept that it's there and maybe dress accordingly or use body makeup to cope with it.

Me just putting on whatever I want to wear today, people find confidence in that. But to me, I'm just coping.

The main problem I've always had with fashion media is that women are encouraged to copy other women.

I realized that... at the core of who we are, we're these perfect beings - and we're not taught that.

Destiny's Child I grew up on hard core. Like, I can't tell you how much I love the three of them so much and what they had to offer.

I'm good enough; I'm smart enough. Self-affirmation is where people list their core values. These are things that really make them who they are.

I want to go to every corner of the Earth where women are and make sure that every single woman on this planet knows that you should make the first move, it's OK to make the first move. They are equal, and they should be empowered.

'No one sits Baby in a corner,' one of the best lines in movie history.

Knowing that there is a community of people on every corner of this planet that believes in justice, that is willing to sacrifice, and that is willing to take a stand is the most heartening thing.

I've fully turned a corner in terms of thinking about my own voice. I think I have a pretty cool voice, just sonically.

The mark of a good agent is someone who you feel is on your side, fighting your corner.

I think that the people who come from communities like me as an African-American woman, as a member of the LGBT community, we haven't sat in the corners of power.

There's no one way to the top. Make your own opportunities. See around corners. Raise your hand for assignments.

The right to vote is the cornerstone of our democracy.

I know that sounds corny. And I know you've heard it before. But it's really true: We're so much more than our bodies.

Art saved me. It may sound corny, but it's true.

Command-and-control isn't the kind of corporate culture people want to be in anymore.

Being a black woman in America and the world and in corporate situations is something to be celebrated.