Skepta Quotes

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

It's nice to finally be my own person.

I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.

I always had that yearning, that hunger, to one day be independent and be my own person and build my own world. The most fulfilling thing is to live a life where you have freedom.

Let us first obtain ourselves…Give us ourselves and all that belongs to us will follow.

I need space to grow and get old and be a human being. I don't want to be trapped in your ingenue bubble. And I don't agree with it either, by the way.

More having to do whatever anybody said you had to do. I couldn't really do anything on my own. But as I got older and then came to America and then Grace became my name, it somehow freed me. All of a sudden, I can be this other person.

I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.

Freedom is just another word: It seems to get truer the older I get.

You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act.

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

Render yourself free to choose, to be, to live, to see.

Education liberates a woman.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.

Liberation is not deliverance.

As you grow and mature, you will want and will earn more freedom to live your lives your way and to make your own choices. This you should do.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

Freedom resides within the soul.

We don't want power, we don't want to be congressmen, bankers, we want to be ourselves.

Step out of your cage And onto the stage It's time to start Playing your part Freedom awaits Open the gates Open your mind Freedom's a state

The thing that has never changed is I do what I want to do. If I can't do what I want to do, I don't want to do it.

I think that what I have been truly searching for as a person, as a writer, as a thinker, as a daughter, is freedom. That is my mission. A sense of liberty, the liberty that comes not only from self-awareness but also from letting go of many things. Many things that weigh us down.

Atlanta has become and has always been a place where you create your own universe.