Quotes about Empowerment

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.

It's about hard work and not gender.

I am glad that I am in a position to select scripts I would be comfortable working in.

Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.

A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments. The case is too plain for argument. Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.