Quotes About Empowerment

Literature taught me that I wasn't alone, that I could become a writer if I worked at it, that my story mattered. Whether a young reader becomes a writer or not, they deserve to know that their story, whatever it may be, is important.

Doesn't everyone in life deserve a chance to show what they can do?

I think I have done enough for sports and made enough of a name for myself to deserve some sort of backing - most of the other girls have it.

If I did meet somebody, I would only ever make room for someone that loved me how I deserved to be loved. Until then... I've got my shoes, I've got my album, my dog.

I think everyone deserves to look better and to look good.

Every child, and every person, deserves a chance to make something of themselves.

What I want to do for Mom - I want her to be able to understand that she can do anything she wants. I want her to be able to say, 'I've never been to so-and-so,' and go. She deserves that.

Everyone deserves music.

I've been working seriously in giving fashion a place that it deserves.

Every child deserves to see themselves in stories they can enjoy, but it isn't the place of white people to decide how and why those stories are created and marketed.

For me, it's simple: everybody deserves the same rights.

I wish more women would come into films and give it the respectability it deserves.

Every kid in our state deserves an opportunity for success.

Black people, we are fully deserving of the room and space to fully express our humanity. This is what Black Lives Matter is truly about.

I design for the woman who loves being a woman.

I always believed that clothes should be designed to conform to our bodies and not our bodies to conform to the clothing.

I have always been attracted to clothes designed by women. Coco Chanel, Vionnet, Norma Kamali, Donna Karan. They have a little more - how do I put it? - understanding.

When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.

So many books are designed to help you with your love life spend their time telling you what you can't do. What I love about 'Get The Guy' is it spends the majority of its time telling you what you can do.

I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the composer, the designer, the architect of me. It's been really fun.

If I'm going to be the black designer, I'm going to tell it my way.

As a designer, I believe in the power of fashion. It has the ability to not only change how you look but also how you feel about yourself.

The women I play don't sit in the corner eating lettuce leaves and talking about what designer shoes they have.

It's a constant battle being a plus-size designer.