Quotes about Power

When we look away from the importance of the erotic in the development and sustenance of our power, or when we look away from ourselves as we satisfy our erotic needs in concert with others, we use each other as objects of satisfaction rather than share our joy in the satisfying, rather than make connection with our similarities and our differences.

They convinced me meaning they had dragged her 4'10 Black Woman's frame over the hot coals of four centuries of white male approval until she let go the first real power she ever had and lined her own womb with cement to make a graveyard for our children.

Anger is loaded with information and energy.

And I began to recognize a source of power within myself that comes from the knowledge that while it is most desirable not to be afraid, learning to put fear into a perspective gave me great strength.

But as we come more into touch with our own ancient, non-european consciousness of living as a situation to be experienced and interacted with, we learn more and more to cherish our feelings, and to respect those hidden sources of our power from where true knowledge and, therefore, lasting action comes.

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.

It's not a question of who will allow me to do it, it's a question of who will stop me.

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.