Quotes About Empowerment

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

The concept of muse is alien to me. To speak of a muse implies there is a couple in which one person is the objectified passive element - there to help the creative, active, often male part of the duo to create. A muse is very passive. Who wants a muse? I don't want a muse.

Black people are expected to be passive citizens, good immigrants, mute and grateful.

Change the conversation you're having in the mirror with yourself... if you hear someone who is saying something that is bringing them down, stop it. Don't be passive. Actually, take action and say, 'I wouldn't speak to my best friend like that.'

I don't want anyone to think I took this role in 'Downsizing' because it was the only role available to me. I'm not a passive participant in it.

People - and I think this is particularly true of Americans - don't like to be passive. They like to seize control.

Passivity is the same as defending injustice.

Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.

You don't need a passport to work on human rights.

I am not ashamed of my past; I am not ashamed of my humble beginnings.

You can't let your past hold your future hostage.

Ideally, a good pastor wants to empower a congregation to the point where they don't need him. You want everyone to leave feeling better.

It's not like television is now for women who have been put out to pasture. Television is for everybody.

'Housewives' has shone a light on women of middle age, that you're not out of the game, you're not old, you're not put out to pasture... You're lively, you're doing things, you're aggressive, you're making money, you're recreating yourself.

I've got Pat 'HD' Barry in my corner.

It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

If you choose to take a path in life, don't blame other people for the path you've chosen to take.

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.

We need to ensure that everyone's got a path to getting a license, so they've got identification.

You just have to find your activism, and don't let anyone tell you what that should look like. If you're doing the work, and you're getting someone to think, you're on the right path.

You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.

People still create limitations and laws for women. But every woman deserves to choose her own path.

I think all the bad things I have been through are in the past. I believe I am on the right path now, dealing with the people who can help me, the right kind of people.

I'm trying to show people that they can activate their own passions and find their own path.