Quotes About Empowerment

It was a huge confidence builder to stand in front of 34 21-year-olds and explain something to them every day.

I don't want my kids to have to walk through a world where they have to constantly explain who they are and who their family is.

I don't have to explain anything to trans women. Trans women know exactly what's going on.

The young give us hope because young people are certain their best days still lie ahead - which explains why they're absolutely convinced they can change the world for the better.

People who exploit their power and abuse others need to be revealed.

I have never given others a chance to exploit me.

What I'm not about is exploiting women.

I would never put children in a situation where I felt I was exploiting them.

I wanted to explore black culture, and I wanted that culture to be a revelation.

I realized that there was much more to my voice than I'd ever been led to explore and that I could make my own songs.

There needs to be more encouragement and support for women - at an impressionable age - to explore that choreographic side of their brains.

It's exhilerating to be able to explore my own voice.

I like that there are young people being given opportunities to explore and learn and grow and become themselves with a path that is associated with my mother. She would have liked that very much.

For me, I feel empowered when I use my body to exercise, play sports, and explore the world. My body allows me to sing, dance, talk, feel - and eat a damn good piece of cheesecake.

My earliest memory of freedom was when I was about 14 and I stopped caring what people thought about me! I was so free and in charge! That whole year I was exploring myself, and I was so 'free' that I got sent away to boarding school.

That's something I really like about 'Lone Star,' is that they allow my character to just be who he is, while also at other times exploring his trans experience and giving room for that as well.

I've been lucky to come up when there's such a huge explosion of women, and especially Asian women, in music.

I do expose my body, but only because I think people should have something nice to look at.

It is the harassers and assaulters who make us 'look bad,' not the women who have every right to expose crimes against them.

You see now more girls getting involved in their sports because they can see it on TV and see these people playing, and I think - the more and more it's exposed and is out there - it will continue to grow and grow. They watch it on TV and think, 'Well, that could be me!'

I think my mom exposed me to the concept of using your voice for anything you care about.

Growing up with three boys in a heavily male-dominated world, I especially needed to express myself as a woman.

I express myself through clothes, but clothes don't define me.

If you've got the chance to really speak your mind and do what you feel and express yourself how you want, then this is freedom. Drag is freedom.