Angelica Ross Quotes

The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.

We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.

It is not possible to conceive a democratic Guatemala, free and independent, without the indigenous identity shaping its character into all aspects of national existence.

We're not trying to take back our country. We are our country.

If I don't belong because of what I think and because of my opinions, then so be it. What can one do about it? One can't bend over backwards or pretend to be someone else just to belong. And in any case, it doesn't work. Once you no longer belong, it's over.

Every kid is going to be his or her own individual, they all have their own style of doing things.

The sense of community does not arise out of collective movement, nor from conforming to some group direction. Quite the contrary. Each individual tends to use the opportunity to become all that he or she can become. Separateness and diversity - the uniqueness of being "me" - are experienced

At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.

If I'd wanted to be an individual, I'd have taken up tennis.

To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.

You have to make your own family, your own life.

Make it on your own if you think you can.If you see somewhere to go, I understand.

For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.

You are on your own in a big world, in which you are one of many nations, some small, some medium sized, some large. You are nobody's boss and nobody is your boss.

Live for yourself... there's no one else more worth living for...

There is no method except yourself.

She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.

Once I got to an age where I was old enough to make my own decisions, I quit everything and did what I actually wanted to do, which was start a band.

We want to be with ourselves in a land of our own under the guidance of God.

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

Live your life the way you want. You'll figure it out.

Don't let anyone define you. You define yourself.

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.

Liberty may be an uncomfortable blessing unless you know what to do with it. That is why so many freed slaves returned to their masters, why so many emancipated women are only too glad to give up the racket and settle down. For between announcing that you will live your own life, and the living of it lie the real difficulties of any awakening.

You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.