Quotes About Empowerment

Blacks are tired of seeing whites saying, 'I understand you.' You need a black to direct a black film.

If one black man aided by a bevy of good, decent, dedicated, and open liberal-minded whites and Jews can succeed in prevailing over a group of white racists by making them look like the ignorant fools that they are truly are, imagine what a nation of like-minded individuals can accomplish.

I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.

I'm learning to accept myself. I'm still in the process of learning to love who I am. And it's been really refreshing and really nice to be able to do that and be okay. I think my fans have brought that out in me.

Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great.

I've always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

Decisions are made by those who show up.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

Being brave enough to just be unapologetic for who you are, that's a goddess.

Remember who you are. Remember to be strong and don't care about what people say.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

I'm not a Barbie doll, I'm just a multidimensional human being who likes to make things.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

Who am I to say anybody can't do what they want to do and create their own destiny if they believe in something?

I'm not a sexist. I believe if a man can to go work all his life, a woman can. Who am I to say, 'Don't do that because you're a girl?'

I had been getting relaxers since I was eight or nine. I had no clue. It was a personal mission to really find out who am when I'm not altering myself to look like anybody else. Who am I when I wake up and I don't do anything to my hair? Who is that woman? I want to meet her. And that was what catapulted my journey into going natural.

I don't give a damn what people say about me. I like me the way I am, and who cares what other people say?

The biggest hurdle that our communities have is cynicism - saying it's a done deal, who cares; there's no point to voting. If we can get somebody to care, it's a huge victory for the movement and the causes we're trying to advance.