“Don t act your role, be yourself.”
“We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.”
“Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world.”
“I hope you find your truth and when you do, you stand in the middle of it strong, beautiful and nimble like the World dancer. Because when the Fool followed her own path and trusted herself, she found herself in the World. And by the time she did, she was so high on the music-so enraptured by the dancing, so lost in the beauty, so in tune with herself, and so filled with magic-she didn t even realize she d arrived at her destination.”
“No matter how you define success, you will need to be resilient, empowered, authentic, and limber to get there.”
“Tools of empowerment - heartset and mindset.”
“To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of shit.”
“It s not that difficult you see, To be all that you can be; For the true secret to success, Is simply this... ALWAYS do your best.”
“In the law, rights are islands of empowerment. . . . Rights contain images of power, and manipulating those images, either visually or linguistically, is central in the making and maintenance of rights. In principle, therefore, the more dizzyingly diverse the images that are propagated, the more empowered we will be as a society.”
“Lori, you re fears and insecurities and what you think about yourself, those things are all sabotaging you, and if you don t learn to silence those voices, you re never going to have the things in life that you deserve. (pg. 274)”
“The C part is in here and it wants to play. Do you want to see it? Or are you going to pussy out on me again? This quote is taken from As Easy As ABC , written in 2014, scheduled to be included in the as yet unpublished 3rd book of the Killing Time Legacy Series (expected c.2023).”
“Empowerment looks like cultivating the wisdom to make the best choices we can out of what are customarily a piss-poor set of options. Power looks like the ability to create better options. The powerlessness and capriciousness of being repeatedly jammed up at the personal and political crossroads of one s intersection while a watching world pretends not to see there, needing help, is how it feels to be a Black woman on an ordinary day.”
“Empowerment looks like cultivating the wisdom to make the best choices we can out of what are customarily a piss-poor set of options. Power looks like the ability to create better options. The powerlessness and capriciousness of being repeatedly jammed up at the personal and political crossroads of one s intersection while a watching world pretends not to see you there, needing help, is how it feels to be a Black woman on an ordinary day.”
“In 1959, women were told they needed to cultivate their “daintiness”—today it s couched as “femininity,” but the unspoken message has stayed the same. The fact that the message is framed as empowerment doesn t change the deficit mentality behind it.”
“Smile; For the shadows and darkness can not overcome unlimited light ”
“Self-absorption is not empowerment, it s sophisticated barbarism.”
“Good teachers help you believe in yourself, rather than cultivate a belief in them. They teach you to connect to the divinity within you.”