Quotes About Empowerment

As slavery died for the greater good of America, and the movement for equality sputtered to life, the white woman was on the cover of every American magazine. She was the dazzling jewel on every movie screen, the glory of every commercial and television show.

The beautiful thing about 'Drag Race' is it's the most inclusive television show, probably on the planet. It's the place where kids go because they feel like they don't fit in anywhere else. It's the place they go to feel safe.

I think 'Pose' is really a groundbreaking television show because we're telling stories about family and love through people that society has always believed were incapable of having that or being a part of that.

Whether it's a film, a television show, an event or a pair of shoes, everything Uninterrupted does comes back to the fundamental belief that every human is multidimensional and should be empowered to share their own story.

We need Hollywood to make movies and television shows about sexy female engineers.

I'll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean really, no fear!

Let me tell you, I am nobody's puppet.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.

Get as rude as possible and don't let anyone tell you how to live.

I tell myself that if I start to listen to these people and start to let them decide how I should behave and what I should do, then this is not my life - it's theirs.

Teaching is really very, very important. I always tell my students that you should find an opportunity to teach. When you teach others, you teach yourself.

What I would tell a kid with ADHD and dyslexia or someone who struggles with anything in life is this: 'When you put your mind to it, you can do anything.'

I always tell people that you should only hire people to be on your team if you would work for them.

I can't let anybody tell me what I'm going to be.

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done.

It is important that we continue to keep telling stories from new perspectives and have proper representation on our screens, because it is educational and empowering.

There were a lot of stop signs in my life... People telling you what to do, when to do it, and so on.

What good is telling America's children that they will have equal opportunity for education if they don't have the skills that will even get them to the point of benefiting from education, because they didn't have the child care, the health care that would enable them to grow as strong and constructive human beings?

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what's going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

I'm telling you there is hope. I have seen it, but it does not come from the governments or corporations. It comes from the people.

All my life, I've had a fear of being told what to say, so I'm not telling people what to think. I'm encouraging them to say what they think.

Everybody in this world deserves to show what they can do without anybody telling them they can't.