Beyonce Empowering Quotes

#1. I know not the way God leads me, but well do I know my Guide.

Martin Luther

#2. So I'm very happy if my words can ever inspire or empower someone who considers themselves an oppressed minority ... We are all the same and we all want the same things: the right to be happy, to be just who we want to be and to love who we want to love.

Beyonce Knowles

#3. I had some bad jobs when I was young. Writing is not one of them. If you're fortunate enough to reach my age, to still be writing, you have to be grateful, and I am. I've been lucky. For many years, all I've done is writing, and it's all I've ever wanted to do.

Richard Flanagan

#4. I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

Richard Rorty

#5. I don't have expectations with people, but I have very high standards for myself. The only time I get disappointed in life is when I disappoint myself.

Chronixx

#6. The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

Konrad Adenauer

#7. I am not bossy, I am the boss.

Beyonce Knowles

#8. I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book.

Jenny Lawson

#9. I only joke about really serious things,

Ali Smith

#10. I know I'm stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

Beyonce Knowles

#11. I felt that if he touched me, I'd die. and then the thought crawled into my brain that if he didn't touch me, I'd die.

Kitty Thomas

#12. I think America has dealt with - I mean, this is simplistic, and of course I don't live in America - but the impression I get is that there is not a kind of obligation to dislike those who are better off or be frightened of those who are worse off.

Julian Fellowes

#13. By the age of eleven it was . . . too late for the piano and the violin.

Jasper Rees