Quotes About Freedom

I think it's important to not always wear pants and not always wear dresses. You should and mix that up.

Why wear pants when you can wear a muumuu?

I'm a pants girl. I just feel more comfortable in them.

Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday.

I fly from the seat of my pants, basically.

I hate long pants.

I live by the seat of my pants.

This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.

I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.

One of the great things about being gay and out is that the papers couldn't care less about your love life.

One thing my father said was that if you find yourself in a country where you have to carry papers, you know it has a lousy government.

Recklessness is par for the course when you're 25.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

I can really write what I want. I can take time; I can do nothing for a year. That is paradise.

As I sat in a small room constructing what seemed to me awkward sentences and paragraphs, McCone was out having exciting adventures.

I crave for adventure. It makes me feel alive and excited. It's a constant tussle between what you want to do and other parameters that aren't in your hands.

Network TV is so limiting. There are so many parameters.

I hate parameters. They immediately alienate a bunch of people.

Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration.

Joe and I are still very aware of the fact that we live in a country where he criticised the government and lived another day. That trumps all. To paraphrase Churchill, democracy is the worst form of government apart from all the other forms of government. You constantly have to fight for it; you have to keep your government honest.

I am no parasite.

I'm never going to beg for pardon for exercising fundamental rights.

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

We are not naughty children, and the state is not our parent.