Quotes About Independence

I can not live on the bank of a river and wash my hands with spittle.

The young he-goat said that but his sojourn in his mother's clan he would not have learnt to stick up his upper lip.

Decolonising the Mind, by an important African writer and revolutionary, Ng?g? wa Thiong'o.

H]e developed a private philosophy of total self-reliance, an unyielding internal sufficiency that requires no external support from others.

wait for a man to avenge your honor, and you'll wait forever.

NOTE TO A WOULD-BE LOVER So, You think you got me, huh? Well, You ain't got me. You only got my underpants And they go back on Just as easy as they came off.

I kind of understood at a young age that I didn't play well with most other kids in the sandbox.

there is nothing that frightens that man more than a woman who does not live happily under a man's thumb.

But if you are a person who needs no one's approval, you are probably crazy and live alone on an island or the top of a mountain somewhere.

A smart girl is nobody's pushover and nobody's foe. A smart girl is both sword and smile.

Becoming a flight attendant was at once rebellion and escape

Being content is not a lack of ambition. It's being able to rest and relax and know your worth doesn't come from what others think of you or even what you think of you.

Some people refuse to accept the limits given to them by others.

every woman's mind is her kingdom. Rule it wisely, lassie.

We are not a people with a revolutionary or an insurrectionary tradition. The War of Independence, while it borrowed the rhetoric of revolution, replaced a foreign oligarchy with a native, slaveholding oligarchy.

I do all my own make-up, it takes me 10 minutes.

I think America was a miracle. I think God loves this country.

I couldn't care less what anyone thinks about me. When I look in the mirror and see what's looking back at me, I'm incredibly happy. Nobody's opinion is going to change that.

Sometimes I gotta look in the mirror and say, 'Hey, they're still saying you're too fat, but you're here! They gotta take it or leave it.' And in most cases, if they leave it, it's all good because they don't need to be in my space anyway.

Nobody told David Clarke what to think, what to feel, what to say, what to believe in, who to marry, what kind of food to eat - you know that thing that the race hustlers like to say defines your blackness? But yet every time I look in the mirror in the morning, I see a black guy looking back at me.

I'm not going to see anybody else in the mirror. That's how I live, day by day. When I look in the mirror, it's up to me to accomplish everything I want out of life.

My mother's incredibly independent and she brought us up to be the same. She had five daughters and two sons and only allowed one mirror in the house because she didn't want us to be obsessed with our looks or weight.

If you want to live a miserable life, making your life all about other people is the way to do it.

You can't let people control your feelings, or you'll live a pretty miserable life trying to change them.