Quotes About Empowerment

Record companies feel they are the culture. Hip-hop has to begin to define, protect, and promote itself, and that's why we founded the Temple.

I'd watch old movies with Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Bette Davis and long to be part of that glamorous world. A lot of that glamour is gone now. In my own small way, I hope I'm bringing some of it back. But it would be great if I could inspire women to dress up.

As temples of the Holy Spirit. we should have communion with the Holy Spirit. The work of any believer is not only the work of a human individual, but is actually the work of the Holy Spirit.

My grandma forbid us from describing ourselves as poor. She said, 'we're broke.' Because broke is temporary.

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream -- but create!

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

There is nothing on earth that you cannot have once you have mentally accepted the fact that you can have it.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.

There is a Spark of Divinity in YOU. What are you doing to fan it into flame? Are you giving it a chance to grow, to express itself, to become an all-consuming fire? Are you giving it work to do? Are you making it seek out ever greater worlds to conquer? Or are you letting it slumber neglected, or perhaps even smothering it with doubt and fear?

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent.

There are riches enough for all of us, no matter our abilities or circumstances. It is only the inspiration that requires summoning.

Mass education, because it produces hosts of badly educated people liberated from fatalism, will contribute to instability (p. 123).

Giving to those in need what they could be gaining from their own initiative may well be the kindest way to destroy people.

When we do for those in need what they have the capacity to do for themselves, we disempower them.

Community transformation is about the quality of neighbors, not the quality of programs.

the only effective charity is the kind that asks more from those being served, rather than less. Asking for more sends an affirming message to the recipient that he or she also has something of value to offer.

Never do for the poor what they have (or could have) the capacity to do for themselves.

developing the dependency-free zone is the real challenge.

Why do we persist in giving away food when we know it fosters dependency?" "Because it's easier!

The strategy of crisis intervention must then shift to a strategy of development.

Open Everything' is everything--it is our mind, our heart, our soul, our destiny.