1,504 Quotes About Empowerment

Asking for knowledge is often wiser than having it.

Speaking truth gets a bad rap, usually by those who don’t have to courage to speak it.

You can't fake confidence. Confidence can only come as a result of competence.

Every person you think is better or smarter than you is thinking the exact same thing about you right now.

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.