Black Empowered Quotes & Sayings

When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it. — Rudolf Nureyev

Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos. — Anne Campbell

This is one of the consequences of a superior education, you see. In this independent, hundred-per-cent-empowered and fully and totally indigenous blacker-than-black country, a superior education is one that the whites would value, and as whites do not value local languages at the altar of what the whites deem supreme. So it was in colonial times, and so it remains, more than thirty years later. — Petina Gappah

Harsh words and shouts are constantly being flung at my head, though I'm absolutely not used to it. — Anne Frank

If you increase living standards you make labor more productive. This is why Asia today is becoming more productive than the United States. — Michael Hudson

Sometimes in our lives we all have pain. We all have sorrow. But if we are wise we know that there's always tomorrow. — Bill Withers

First you Yearn to Earn. Then you Learn that others will Burn what you Earn. Stop! Turn and Spend before your End.-RVM — R.v.m.

Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more critically esteemed, the more respected. That can get frustrating. — Jennifer Weiner

The close games are usually lost, rather than won. What I mean by that is games are mostly won because of the opponent making mistakes during crucial moments. — John Wooden

[On Las Vegas:] I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions. — Marlene Dietrich

Black women who define ourselves and our goals beyond the sphere of a sexual relationship can bring to any endeavor the realized focus of completed and therefore empowered individuals. — Audre Lorde

Animism is the way humanity has been deeply connected to the land and its seasonal cycles for millennia, in rapport and conversation with the animals, plants, elements, Ancestors and earth spirits. The opposite of animism is the "cult of the individual" so celebrated in modern society, and the loss of the animist worldview is at the root of our spiritual disconnect and looming ecological crisis. Human beings are just one strand woven into the complex systems of Earth Community, and the animistic perspective is fundamental to the paradigm shift, and the recovery of our own ancestral wisdom. — Pegi Eyers

I've also learned that the biggest lessons came from my biggest mistakes. — Gurbaksh Chahal