Quotes About Freedom

I don't want to be pinned down to any position. My position is the lack of a position, but of course you can't even talk about it; the minute you talk you spoil the whole game-Marcel Duchamp

In order to become whole we must try, in a long process, to discover our own personal truth, a truth that may cause pain before giving us a new sphere of freedom. If we choose instead to content ourselves with intellectual "wisdom," we will remain in the sphere of illusion and self-deception.

We become free by transforming ourselves from unaware victims of the past into responsible individuals in the present, who are aware of our past and are thus able to live with it.

For one is free from it only when self-esteem is based on the authenticity of ones own feelings and not on the possession of certain qualities.

We name us and then we are lost, tamed I choose words, more words, to cure the tameness, not the wildness

our production of the world, our interpretation of it, what we've been told to experience and what we've been told we have to do, both worry and distress me. I don't want to live in someone else's dream.

Oh but I need my lone self!

I want to live here, where nothing coheres. Who'd be in ordinary life, working or shopping, looking forward to whatever it turns out it's about

I don't want to be in love. I'm tired of another's thoughts. I'm not, I can't stand my own.

Fleeing through forest turning silver, in the primal moonlight smeared on us we ran like horses

Billions hide me before I can arise on my golden wings or something

I'm the being who isn't planetary; we have traveled beyond our world, to sit in a paper forest lit by jewel-light.

Love is never appeased if she's repressed

I want to walk away. Leave the crisis.

I want to sing in a voice you don't own, that you've never heard and judged.

I want to be lawless; I want to be alone.

I can't accept an identity others give me; I won't be your person.

breaking out of their mass grave

and then (as if a lock had gone and the Spring had broken loose)

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it that's my religion.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.