Quotes about Empowerment

I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.

Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.

Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it; to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

Let nothing dim the light that shines from within

In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

One person, with good purpose, can, constitute the majority.

There was a possibility that God really did love me, me Maya Angelou. I suddenly began to cry at the gravity and grandeur of it all. I knew that if God loved me, then I could do wonderful things, I could try great things, learn anything, achieve anything. For what could stand against me, since one person, with God, constitutes the majority?

Yet it is only love which sets us free.

Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight.

All I got to do is stay black and die.