Quotes About Defiance

I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.

Nothing can affect my voice, it's so bad.

Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.

I established early what I was and wasn't willing to accept. People tried to say what I had to do, whether it be pop or R&B, to be successful. Even when I was in the girl group, they would try to make our voices sound very radio-friendly and fit that mold. But even before I got signed, I knew who I was and who I wanted to be.

'Il faut vivre' might almost be the French national motto from 1940 to June 1944, but who is to say ours would have been any different if the Germans had paraded victoriously through London and Generalfeldmarschall Von Runstedt made his headquarters at Claridge's?

Many people voted for Trump just to say, you know, their 'no' to the system.

Texans and independent voters like to vote for somebody who is going to buck the status quo, and isn't going to do as he is told.

I don't have any shame.

I don't have no shame.

After a sheltered life, I went the other way. I wanted to prove how tough I was.

Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.

Eat my shorts!

People always ask me, 'Lech, aren't you afraid of being killed?' And as an answer I shrug my shoulders.

Bowing and showing respect - I don't give nothing about none of that. I'm just coming in and fighting.

Anybody that goes against me is going to have a bad day.

I want to be the bad guy.

No one can ban me or stop me from acting.

You can talk all you want but I'm definitely going to bark back.

I always tried to be different from everyone else. Then I found out about boxing. That was the way I could be different from everyone else. I always went against the crowd.

I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use and leads to nothing.

Beast. That's what everybody says about me.

I've been pilloried so many times that I begin to expect it now.

Women behaving badly has always been funny, to me personally, so I knew I wanted to do something like that.

I'm not going to be told that I shouldn't be doing anything, or behaving in any particular way at any age of my life.