Quotes About Empowerment

Kickstarter isn't a profit center, it's an organizer and an instigator.

Profitability is a shallow goal if it doesn't have a real purpose, and the purpose has to be share the profits with others.

One bully changing their behavior for the better can have a profound effect on many, many lives.

My body became aligned with my identity, and it was profound.

To go from hating the way I looked to being a 'Cosmo' centerfold is a profound honor.

There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.

I think women can tell the most profound and interesting and fascinating stories.

It's profound to watch a little African-American girl light up when she raps as George Washington and she realizes that Washington's story is her story. That this history belongs to all of us.

Shows like 'Empire'... one of the most profound powerful things is that there's a gay male character who is loved. That character is going to save a lot of people's lives. Black families are confronting the idea that a gay black character can be human.

I love black. Anything black transforms lives in a profound way, particularly for women.

Certain people, coaches, have a profound, positive outcome on somebody's life. And Al Davis had a profound, positive outcome on my life.

Influential people have a profound impact on everyone they encounter. Yet, they achieve this only because they exert so much influence inside, on themselves.

Drag Race' has changed my career and life profoundly.

If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.

I wasn't one-hundred percent sure that Jenny Craig was going to be the right program for me, but I wanted to do something. So I sat down with the CEO of Jenny Craig, Patti Larchet.

It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It's part of the programme.

Well, if you look at the programme that we're offering, I think that is a future which is fair for women as well as men. We're still heavily outnumbered - we're still four to one in parliament - but we are pioneers! We are forging a new path.

We've been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can't do - about what is impossible.

The way we have been programmed and conditioned to think about the black kid being an athlete, it's like every young black boy people would see say 'what sport do you play?' instead of just asking 'what do you do?' 'What are you interested in?'

When a child knows that he or she is dyslexic, that it's the way their brain is programmed, and it's not their fault, that makes all the difference in the world.

You don't have to be a nerd or a programmer or a network engineer to make a difference.

There are 2 to 3 million women programmers in the world. We need to see them more.

I call for greater measures to involve more women at higher levels in mine action. Governments should do more to address gender in their mine action programmes and through their implementation of the Anti-personnel Mine Ban Convention.

Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.