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In Philadelphia, our public safety, poverty reduction, health and economic development all start with education. We can't grow the middle class if we don't give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent.
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I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.
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One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.
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Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.


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You don't want to give kids an idea that they might not have thought of.


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Broadband access is the great equalizer, leveling the playing field so that every willing and able person, no matter their station in life, has access to the information and tools necessary to achieve the American Dream.
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My sister and I were not allowed expensive clothes. We so badly wanted these Fila sneakers as kids, but my mother took us down to the flea market and got imitation ones. Look at the early Destiny's Child videos. You'll see.
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You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out.


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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.


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Awareness is empowering.


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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.


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You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's incumbent on a parent.
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I realize it's a cliche, almost, that coming out of the closet is a very healthy and empowering thing to do, but for me, it really has been a truly wonderful thing.
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As much as you don't like disciplining your kids, you have to sometimes. Kids want that structure, that leadership, that guidance. I think that's what I try to give my children.
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I realize it's a cliche almost, that coming out of the closet is a very healthy and empowering thing to do, but for me, it really has been a truly wonderful thing.
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Changing what you don't like about yourself can be empowering, and that's not a bad thing. Feeling secure enough to own what is weak and missing from either your body, mind or spirit and to commit to action to change it is a good thing.
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