Quotes about Empowerment

And no, they ain't in love with your mouth. Yonder, out there, they will see it broken and break it again. What you say out of it they will not heed. What you scream from it they do not hear. What you put into it to nourish your body they will snatch away and give you leavins instead. No, they don't love your mouth. You got to love it. This

For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love. The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit; everything, just a little bit, so when they broke its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you'd have a little love left over for the next one.

To the two who gave me life and the one who made me free

Being a black woman writer is not a shallow place but a rich place to write from. It doesn't limit my imagination; it expands it," Toni Morrison, who turns eighty-eight today

Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn't even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.

Because each had discovered years before that they were neither white nor male, and that all freedom and triumph were forbidden to them, they had set about creating something else to be

Some of them had to have Bible verses read to them because they could not decipher print themselves, so they had sharpened the skills of the illiterate: perfect memory, photographic minds, keen senses of smell and hearing.

Faith isn't simply tied to belief. It is tied to an action. Faith is tied to your feet. The power of faith comes when you are willing to give the very thing that you need to someone else so God can give "it" back to you.

Churches must extend their influence beyond the lives of church members to impact the broader community that they serve.

God doesn't need you to be your husband's critic, his conscience, or his mother. Neither does he need you to sit down, fold your arms, and say, "Okay, that's it. I'm not going to do what I'm supposed to do until my husband starts doing what he's supposed to do.

In essence, God let Moses know that even when people aren't able to fulfill the calling on their lives, if they will recognize Him as Adonai, He can make them fully capable. God doesn't always call the equipped, but He always equips the called.

Many believers today don't realize that even though we received the Holy Spirit when we trusted in Christ for salvation from our sins, the ongoing dwelling of the Holy Spirit's presence is something we need to seek on a regular basis. Just as driving your car is difficult if it's running on fumes, living the victorious Christian life is impossible without the flame of the Spirit burning bright.