Quotes About Empowerment

We have an audience, the ability to fund our own projects, own our own projects, the ability to display our projects unencumbered by any middlemen. That's the perfect scenario.

For me, it's about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That's what's big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I'm in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

I have four daughters. A lot of the time, I don't allow myself to be in projects that objectify women.

My M.O. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me. I'm in this wonderful position to be able to do that.

I love the idea that I have the power to look for the projects I can put myself into, but I'm still at that level of just being happy to have a job.

Should 50 per cent of Telefilm's projects be helmed, produced, or written by women? I think so.

I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.

For me, I actively look for projects that showcase people of color.

If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.

In order for a person of color to get on a cover of a magazine, they have to do something prolific - winning an Oscar, being the first billionaire, you know, or whatever. I think it's becoming more natural that somebody can get on the cover of a magazine just because they're an amazing person. That's what it should be.

My friends and I are collecting prom dresses to give to girls who can't afford them for their proms.

In high school, I had a singing group, and I designed the outfits and made my friends' prom dresses.

Ravi Babu's films are known to have its heroines playing prominent roles. Further, all the heroines he has cast in his films are well-established, known faces. I consider myself lucky to have been considered by him to play Mohini.

What we need to focus on is not that we're not nominated, but that we have many more Latinos that are in prominent positions on shows all across the dial than ever before.

The '70s was a decade that was crammed with prominent women science fiction writers, and a lot of women made their debut in that decade or really came to prominence.

I can do an hour-long speech about Democrats taking African Americans for granted, and I'd have a line behind me of very prominent African-Americans who would say, 'Amen.'

Of course, I'm all for women getting to play prominent parts.

I've always been very passionate about trying to have Asian-Americans or Asian faces be more prominent in mainstream media.

When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day.

We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.

When government gets out of the way, the people achieve great things because of the promise of great rewards.

Labour can and must offer hope: not the falsehood that it will do everything, but the real promise that it can help us help each other.

Block by block, street by street, our city has the resources, the activism, and the ideas to meet these challenges if we act boldly and reshape what's possible. After all, Boston was founded on a revolutionary promise: that things don't have to be as they always have been.

As you keep your mind and heart focused in the right direction, approaching each day with faith and gratitude, I believe you will be empowered to live life to the fullest and enjoy the abundant life He has promised you!