Quotes About Independence

I don't have any contracts, so I don't have to split any money up. That was my main thing - just making sure I'm taking care of myself and taking care of Lil B. Just learning to survive, for myself and as a human in America.

That callousness that comes from feeling like you have to survive on your own - I really empathized with that.

We are free today because we are the stronger; we will be slaves again when the government becomes the stronger.

Africa has become the big game of the nation hunters. Today, Africa looms as the greatest commercial, industrial and political prize in the world.

I'm today's woman, candid and a woman of substance.

The starting point for energy security today as it has always been is diversification of supplies and sources.

The toddler craves independence, but he fears desertion.

The fundamental job of a toddler is to rule the universe.

The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.

I have what's known as a 'spirited' child. Mia has run me ragged since she knew how to walk. She'd run across soccer fields as a toddler, never once looking back. I have learned how to navigate her strong nature while nurturing it as well. I raised her to think for herself. I raised her to question.

My mother gave birth to me on the floor of our apartment in Mecca with only my toddler sister to help her because my father was at work and no male guardian was available to take her to a hospital.

My message to women is it's okay not to toe the party line on every issue. You don't have to be a puppet or a mouthpiece for your party on every issue. You can be an independent thinker; you can take it issue by issue, and that's okay. You shouldn't be told, 'You can't sit with us.'

I feel very fortunate that I make everything I wear head to toe every day.

What I was doing was servicing the needs of my constituents and I was not allowed to do that because I did not toe the line on U.S. policy for Israel.

Just because I have signed a contract doesn't mean that he or she has bought me from head to toe.

We never want to toe the line.

My father, Vittorio, was a big-time player in Italy, but we never talked about basketball. He never came to my games. He said he didn't want to step on my coaches' toes.

I don't like guys who are conventional. I'm an achiever; he has to be an achiever. I admire drive, I admire ambition. I like a guy who keeps my on my toes.

My man has to be passionate about his work and me. Also, he should give me my space and not keep me on my toes.

You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.

I didn't go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don't need no more schoolin'. You need to get out in the water and swim.

My parents taught me many of the things that people need in life to feel confident: practical things, such as managing finances, mucking out the goat barn, cleaning a house, doing repairs, mending a broken roof or a toilet.

We would say we would play every pay toilet and use our own change. Across America and across the world, we just kept going and going.

I grew up in a world with my father where you learnt to iron, you learnt to cook, you learnt how to clean the toilet... I want my children to be the same... I want them to be anywhere in the world and be able to cope.