Quotes about Empowerment

We all have within us the ability to move from struggle to grace.

I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are black and have any clout at all, I would like to see you go to South Africa and look for yourself and come back and try to use the tools that you have at your command to try and help the brothers down there.

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.

I mean tomorrow if I want to make a film about a queen that lived in the 15th century, I can't be like I can't make it. I should be able to make it.

As African American, gay drag queens, we live with more adversity and challenges.

Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us.

To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race and class and other divisions.

We have to take our anger and rage and channel it into building, growing, loving, holding each other up.

It bothered me that women were taught they can't be beautiful just being themselves - it filled me with rage.

The reality is what Black Lives Matter are raising as an issue is an issue.

Comedy, if it didn't save my life, certainly gave me a very different life.