Quotes About Defiance

Always I hev my fists and my war pipes!

They said that Etta James is still vulgar. I said, Oh, how dare them say I'm still vulgar. I'm vulgar because I dance in the chair. What would they want me to do? Want me to just be still or something like that? I've got to do something.

I got in trouble in Catholic school for rolling the waist of my skirt down.

I don't know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

Brazil hates me. Oh, big deal. Cry me a river, build a bridge, and walk over it.

They - you know, when we walked in - when I walked in with the two white men that had carried me down - and they cursed me all the way down. They would ask me questions, and when I would try to answer, they would tell me to hush.

When I was 11 my school held a sports day near Crystal Palace. We were told we were going to play a rugby match. The ball was eventually passed to me and I was obviously expected to run with it. I took one look at all these players charging towards me, placed the ball on the ground and walked off the pitch.

I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.

At 16, I walked around knowing I'd get chased and attacked for dressing a certain way - I felt I had an undeniable right to be who I wanted to be. My father said to hit them back, but I was never much good at that. So I developed a big mouth instead of a quick right hook.

I walked out of class one day and I never went back.

In order to survive, I created a certain type of aura about myself that I was the baddest chick walking down the street. Anytime somebody underestimates me, Thug Rose comes out.

I'm not physically intimidated by anyone unless the Man Above comes and walks into my face.

When someone says 'Yasss queen!' to me, I turn around and, X-Men style, run through a wall. You'll never hear from me again.

Okay, well, I guess I'm still a kid. Because when I get really angry and fired up and I feel like my back is up against the wall, I will say vicious things.

Black Sabbath has always been noncompliant.

Losing is a tough blow to take.

We are beaten, we will make no bones about it; but we are not too badly beaten still to fight.

I don't need their love. If they want to boo, let them boo.

People want to boo me, let them boo me.

I don't care if people are booing me. They can boo all they like.

I've always had a problem with authority. That's why I had to be my own boss.

You can shave my head if you need to; it doesn't bother me.

I was aware that the things that I did bothered people, but that only spurred me on even more.