Quotes about Influence

One who has great wisdom has great power.

The world doesn't need what women have, it needs what women are.

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

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.

What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.

The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.

How can we teach our children to respect Black women if Black women don't respect Black women?

Kids watch their parents, right? And when kids are three, four, five-years-old, that's when they're like a sponge, and who they are is really developed by the time they are seven.

Some of us have been told what we want our whole lives. We've been told we should want to go out for sports or not. We should want a college education or a graduate degree or a particular career. We should want to date this person and not the other.

Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.

I saw my father preach in Madison Square Garden, and I was a little embarrassed, I think, the first time I heard him preach. That's my father up there, and I kind of slid down in my chair.