Quotes About Empowerment

My work will be finished when I have helped the community to change and become whole.

Take pride in your pain," her mother had always told her. "You are stronger than those who have none." She

I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!

Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.

Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.

Once you had delegated the best people to do a job for you, you had to trust both them and your judgment. What

The meaning of yes is created by the ability to say no.

At some stage of development an officer had to stop following orders and start generating them.

The gods have no hands in this world but ours.  If we fail Them, where then can They turn?

Although even then, it hadn't been because he hadn't wanted to learn—just that he hadn't wanted to learn what had been set on the plate in front of him that day.  The power to select his own plates had changed everything.

ability promoted regardless of background.

The gods have no hands but ours, they say." He held up his fingers and wiggled them.

The gods have no hands but ours, they say.

They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength," he said softly. "They shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." In that moment Libby's wish during class became a prayer.

Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

You will rage and you will cry and you will ask God why. But you will always find yourself again, and you will never sell your soul to a man who cannot love you. If he cannot love you with all his heart and all his spirit as well, then you are better off without him.

To protect yourself, you must believe in yourself. Nothing will encourage that belief more than knowing you are prepared.

owning your sexuality is a big part of equality.

Good healthy anger that is blocked can then seem like feral rage. But when you accept it and work with it, it becomes the ability to stand up for yourself. If you do not intentionally cultivate your best attention in your native state, then you will tend to recapitulate the worst attention your kindergarten teacher or parent gave—disapproval, criticism, scrutiny.

With feminine vengeance)

Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.

I wanted to be able to come here and speak with you on this occasion because you are young, gifted, and black…I, for one, can think of no more dynamic combination that a person might be. . . And that is why I say to you that, though it be a thrilling and marvelous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so, doubly dynamic—to be young, gifted, and black.

Obviously, the most oppressed group of any oppressed group will be its women, who are twice oppressed. So I imagine that they react accordingly: as oppression makes people more militant, women become twice militant, because they are twice oppressed.

In the twentieth century men everywhere like to breathe; and the Negro citizen still cannot, you see, breathe.