Quotes about Empowerment

The ones who have read this will be inspired to become a part of the army of healers that God envisions all His people to be.

Learn how to lean into Jesus. Let Him hold you close until you can hear the rhythm of His heartbeat. Then you will know when to rest, when to run and when to release!

One cannot consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

What is more exhilarating than to make your staunch little boat, obedient to your will and muscle, go skimming lightly over glistening, tilting waves, and to feel the steady, imperious surge of the water!

First — How did I become a Socialist? By reading.

In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

It's interesting to see how 'Arth' still touches a chord in people's hearts all these years later. Men were very hostile when the film was shown in 1984. They were angry and said things like I'm teaching women wrong things by saying they have the choice to walk out of their husband's home if they are cheated upon.

I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime.

Transformation in the world happens when people are healed and start investing in other people.

Transparent' was my coming-out party.