Be proud to be Latino and never lose that pride!

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

I want my fans to love themselves. It’s almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it’s not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don’t want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it’s not unhealthy, so I’m going to rock with it.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

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

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

I don’t have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

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.‘

You don’t have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn’t know you possessed.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

My fat never made me less money.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

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

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

I do believe in self-help.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Sisters, do you realize the breadth and scope of your influence when you speak those things that come to your heart and mind as directed by the Spirit?

Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

It’s every girl’s dream to be a cover girl!

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

I always say that women should wear whatever makes them feel good about themselves. That’s what I always try to do.

If I can be a leader, I will.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.