Quotes About Empowerment

It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it.

'Salaam Bombay' didn't put a halo on the poor. Instead, it said that they will teach us how to live.

I'm here to satisfy the people. I'm here to teach. I'm here to motivate. I'm here to give people the adrenaline, the push and support.

We can teach people how to run a Chipotle.

Programs like ACE's Bootstrap Summer Camp teach our kids important computer coding skills that will allow them to design their own futures.

My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

I just want to teach people how to be comfortable. Stop being so scared.

If you help a chicken out of an egg, most of the time that bird will die. If you help a moth out of a cocoon, it'll die because they don't go through that struggle and maturation. I can give you a fish for the day and you'll eat a day, but if I teach you to fish, you'll eat for a lifetime. Maybe even start a business.

Oppression doesn't disappear just because you decided not to teach us that chapter.

If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it.

I think the most important thing my wife Cynthia and I can do for Kristen is to teach her how to grow up to be a woman and make her own decisions. Meanwhile, we sometimes have to guide her.

I try to find, celebrate and teach leaders how to build platforms that will inspire others.

Hollywood wants to own everything. I don't want to own anything. I don't want people just to make content, I want to empower and teach them to create content they own that they can exploit in any medium.

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.

My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did.

I look forward to a time, in the not so distant future, when we no longer look forward to 'firsts' as milestones women have yet to achieve, but we look back on them as historic events that continue to teach and inspire.

Raising three girls, I think it's important to teach them to support other women.

I have girls who are concerned about how they look compared to models or what have you. It's my responsibility to teach them that beauty is more than superficial.

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.

All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.

During the day, I'm a business owner. I'm a teacher and a mentor.

Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.