Quotes About Empowerment

I was in awe of previous black liberation struggle leaders - Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells. I wanted to be part of something bigger than myself. Black Lives Matter has been that.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don't consider what you do to have any value at all, and that's nonsense.

Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother - so I wouldn't be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally.

Though it's a small price to pay, shaving my head has opened more doors than I ever thought possible.

My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.

I always take pride in the fact that nobody can mess with me, and I never let anybody mess with me my entire life.

We celebrate pride every day of the year - whether it's black pride, whether LGBTQIA + pride, whether it's the pride of being a woman, whether it's the pride of being a mother, we should be proud of who we are each and every day.

I always say it's worth doing what you want to do, not letting people manipulate you. It's worth holding out. It's worth having pride.

What motivated me as much as anything was to show the racists that a black man could bring pride and honour to Britain.

I wear my age with pride.

Pride, to me, is a celebration of the past because we have come such a long way from the very first Pride parade marking the anniversary of the Stonewall riots, so it's a celebration of all that we've accomplished.

To me, Pride is loving myself and not making excuses for anything: Live in your truth.

I am so proud of Amelia Boynton. I can burst with pride.

Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.

There is too much employer-employee relationship in America. I wish the musicians would feel that many decisions have to do with them and not delegate everything to management or to the board or to the committee. This is why you get a sense of pride in some of the European orchestras: because they are part of the decision-making.

Few things give me more pride and hope for our future than when I see women, of all ages and backgrounds, in leadership roles. We need even more women in elected office, running businesses, and guiding organizations.

I put myself out there, trying to prove that beauty is beyond size. It was risky, sure, but what I risked in terms of personal pride was nothing in comparison to what I was rewarded in terms of personal fulfillment.

I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.

If I could have gotten my way at an early age, I would have entered the priesthood, but my mother informed me that I could not become a priest because I was a girl. It really was the biggest blow to my ego, because it was my calling. When she told me I'd have to be a nun, I looked at her and said, 'I'm not following anyone.'

I have a deadly disease called Sickle Cell Anemia that I was born with that affects millions of others - primarily in the Black and Latino cultures. I feel I can inspire others with this Sickle Cell disease to be strong and believe in themselves.

I think it's important that we as athletes do whatever we can to help kids, primarily helping kids of color.

Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.

The primary value of a basic income would be its emancipatory effect.