I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Only the educated are free.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

If I can be a leader, I will.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

God helps those who help themselves.

A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.

My body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

I’m so tough and so bad, I can be humble and lift another guy up.

If you’re too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

I’m a can-do girl.

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

I don’t believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .

I want kids to know: Don’t wait for somebody to come along and tell you you’re special. Because that may never happen.

It’s empowering to know I am doing something, I am taking a stand, I am disrupting.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.