Quotes About Independence

I reached Odell convinced that if I never spoke to another human being for the rest of my life, it would be too soon.

If you think I'm putting my bra back on for this bullshit, you

My sister is not dating anyone–a good thing, as she's got way too much time on her hands. And that, I think, is the number one reason so many relationships fail. Too much free time, and too much time together. (P. 157)

It made me realise that nothing comes easy; nothing is given to you. In Africa I realised you have to make things happen for yourself.

He who follows another will never overtake him.

Where she was going, she had no idea. But the fact that she could still walk suggested she should. And so she did.

There were better things to do with life than giving in to the peer pressure of mortality.

No me creo a los que fingen interesarse por ellos. Aquí cada uno va a la suya. Lo más decente es decir la verdad.

Soy el ser más egoísta del mundo porque quise ser independiente. Eso me alejó de todos, me convirtió en una isla.

liberty was a tree which had to be watered occasionally with the blood of patriots?

Those who understand the true nature of humanity are always loners

To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.

Don't tell me what's necessary, you presumptupus pup. What's necessary is whatever I wish to do, regardless of how unnecessary it might be.

She wasn't clay in the hands of others; she was rock, and with her own determined hands, she could sculpt the person that she wanted to be.

wild are, in practice

If you went to a home, kicked down the front door, chased the people who lived there out into the street and said, "Go! You are free! Free as a bird! Go! Go!"—do you think they would shout and dance for joy? They wouldn't. Birds are not free. The people you've

Even when we grow old and find ourselves alone again, we don't give a shit.

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources.

Some of us are happy with our African hair, thank you very much. I don't want some poor Indian girl's hair. And I wish to God I could buy black hair products from black people for once. How we going to make it in this country if we don't make our own business?

They were real people who entertained and argued and existed entirely independently from him, although he had set the thing in motion. They had different thoughts and beliefs. ~ on children growing up.

I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

But equally you can't fight for a freedom you've forgotten how to identify.

But first the endgames. Because it seems that no matter what you think of them, they must be played, even if, like the independence of India or Jamaica, like the signing of peace treaties or the docking of passenger boats, the end is simply the beginning of an even longer story.