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Chelsea Candelario/PureWow. 2. “I know my worth. I embrace my power. I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story.
Queen Elizabeth II’s 70-year reign gave her numerous opportunities to dispense wit and wisdom, but she started even before officially becoming queen upon her father’s sudden death in February ...
These quotes by notable Black people—from celebrated authors to award-winning actors to renowned public figures—reflect their determination, achievements, wisdom, and the mantras they used or ...
Despite the term's origins in Black Power and Black hip hop, Raisa Alvarado argues that the Girl Power movement "disproportionately centers white, middle and upper class girls." Further, Alvarado claims that "the ethos of girl power discourses, as propagated in popular culture... promote whiteness via neoliberal, postfeminist, and postrace ...
The speech's veracity was accepted by the historian J. E. Neale in an article, 'The Sayings of Queen Elizabeth': "I see no serious reason for rejecting the speech. ... some of the phrases have every appearance of being the Queen's, and the whole tone of the speech is surely very much in keeping even with the few Elizabethan quotations that I have had room for in this article. ...
Kubaba of Kish, the only queen on the Sumerian King List (reigned in the 25th century BC) Semiramis, the legendary queen of king Ninus, succeeding him to the throne of Assyria; Nitocris of Babylon, the ruling queen of Babylon described by Herodotus in his Histories; Queen Zidam – according to the legend of Bayajidda, she conquered Baghdad [135]
These Black History Month quotes from notable figures, activists and politicians including Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. will inspire you all year long. 55 inspiring quotes to read during ...
A May Queen of New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada circa 1877. In the British Isles and parts of the Commonwealth, the May Queen or Queen of May is a personification of the May Day holiday of 1 May, and of springtime and the coming growing season. The May Queen is a girl who rides or walks at the front of a parade for May Day celebrations.