Quotes About Freedom

If we want to mumble rap, we can mumble rap.

We are all people... don't label me as an LGBT rapper or a female rapper... I don't like to be labeled.

No city owns me, you know what I'm saying? I'm from New York, but no city owns me. Nobody can bottle up my sound and box me in. Yes, I am a rapper, but am I a New York rapper? No. I am from New York, I love New York to death, but I will not conform myself to one place, no.

Everyone wants to label me, but I don't want to be labeled as a rapper or a movie actor.

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.

Things go bad after a divorce and often stay that way. It is rare for the parties to return placidly to a time before they met. A bitterness lingers on. Those who call this our Independence Day, fantasising of returning to a never-never time before they married, when they were free, easy, single, and master of their fate, are delusional.

The best times I had on film sets were the times the director let me express myself, but those were rare.

It's very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

It's very rare that I put makeup on.

It's a rare and special feeling to ride a racehorse.

'Human Giant' was a kind of lightning in a bottle. A rare opportunity for us to write and create our own sort of thing, with very few restrictions.

I haven't left modeling completely; I just took a step out, and I now have the rare luxury of picking and choosing how to spend my days.

I was one of the rare guys who never wanted to sign a contract.

An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play.

While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis.

Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.

I fly my own airplane, and I have since 1960. I rarely fly anywhere other than my own airplane.

I cycle, which is a healthy thing for an 80-year-old to do. I rarely go further than five miles, but in those five miles I can get to 80 percent of the places I want to go.

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

America, the self-described greatest nation on Earth, has the highest incarceration rate on the planet.

We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.