Quotes About Independence

You mean uh whole town uh nothin' but colored folks? Who bosses it, den? Dey bosses it deyself. You mean dey runnin' de town 'thout de white folks? Sho is. Eben got a mayor and corporation. Ah sho wants tuh see dat sight.

Ah wouldn't give uh bitch uh bone if she treed uh terrapin.

The theory behind our [Negro] tactics: The white man is always trying to know into somebody else's business. All right, I'll set something outside the door of my mind for him to play with and handle. He can read my writing but he sho' can't read my mind. I'll put this play to in his hand, and he will seize it and go away. Then I'll say my say and sing my song.

Looka heah, Tea Cake, if you ever go off from me and have a good time lak dat and then come back heah tellin' me how nice Ah is, Ah specks tuh kill yuh dead. You heah me?

Put dat in yo' pipe and smoke it.

Tain't in uh man tuh kiss foot long. Mouf kissin' is on uh equal and dat's natural but when dey got to bow down tuh love, dey soon straightens up.

My favorite subject was English, and I wanted to study English abroad when I was young, when I was a kid, but my mom said 'No, it's too dangerous to go abroad by yourself.' So I gave up.

To live abroad you have to grow up quickly.

Tite gives me absolute freedom to do what I have always done throughout my career.

I was not an Abstract Expressionist. Nor was I an Irascible.

Even if I had not become a doctor like my parents, I would've done something to do with academics.

I think it's especially hard when you start at an academy, because everything is decided for you. And then when you go with U.S.T.A., there's only so many decisions you can make.

I've always been a little different in the way I've done things, going to high school instead of a tennis academy when I was younger.

If I choose to direct something, it's because I don't think it would get accepted.

I'm not good at accepting help.

I've accomplished more working on my own than I ever did as part of a team.

I work of my own accord. I don't want to work with restraints or worry what Jose thinks.

No woman was good enough for me, according to my mother.

I like doing my own errands. I feel like they are very personal and it makes me feel like I achieved a lot that day.

The war against British rule must continue until freedom is achieved.

Everything I've ever achieved, I've done on my terms.

When you reach 50 you like to have a certain freedom because it's really the time you can show you achieved something.

We must make it clear to younger girls that being someone's wife is not an achievement.

All my achievements - even if they may seem small - are mine. No one has contributed to them.