Quotes About Defiance

I am not afraid of being a pariah.

If somebody says my ideas aren't good in the afternoon, I can go to a club that night and try to prove them wrong.

You can come after me all day long. I don't care.

I was the only guy with any bit of anarchy left.

I get angry when people push people around.

I get angry when people bring derisory actions against me.

If someone says I can't do something, I always think I'm going to totally do this to annoy you.

Don't let anyone tell you no - don't care about what anyone else thinks.

My father, once he has decided on something, doesn't care about what anyone else thinks. All the men in our family swore at him for training us. His parents said he was mad. But he didn't listen.

Anytime someone has said to me, 'You can't do that,' I have answered, 'Watch me.'

I wasn't that kid where if you told me 'No,' I was just going to do it anyway.

I apologize for nothing.

A man should never apologize!

I didn't have anything to apologize for.

There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

You can't arrest me, I'm a rockstar.

I've been slagged off completely by the art world.

I'm not going to let anyone tell me that I can't perform, that I'm not artistic.

From time to time a few of them, noticeable for the rosaries hanging from their necks (dangerous as it was to carry that sign of a religion which was suppressed, rather than abolished) shook their long hair and raised their heads defiantly.

en vez de agotarme en una defensa angustiosa y a toda costa contra lo que sentía, como deben de haber hecho todos, y aún los marineros sin darse cuenta, acepté sencillamente esa muerte hipnótica, como si estuviese anulado ya.

I want to say Without temper If possible without the least sense of the heroic Without even the measured ambition to speak the truth which is only another vulgarity To say I am not what I was Indeed I was nothing and now I am at least the possibility of something and this I will defend.

To be black is to be a dissident.

That, Imperator, is of concern only to myself and to Titus. And further, do not address me as woman. My ancestors were priests at Jerusalem and kings at Megiddo when Rome was a circle of mud huts inhabited by brutes who had not yet learned to weave cloth or even to smelt copper. And as for this meeting, I think that I at least have had sufficient of it—and if you will permit me, I should like to go.