Kamasi Washington Quotes

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Men must make their history themselves through their own actions

My only fixed truth is a belief in people: a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

You don't wait for somebody to give you something. Then it's not going to happen.

Nobody is powerless.

People make their own destinies.

Expectations are one thing, but you've got to do your own. Got to do your own.

You're the only person that can make your life happen.

The future is in our hands; we are masters of our own destiny.

So our future is in our own hands. What greater free will do we need?

It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life.

That’s what you taught me - we don’t have to accept destiny or Des Tiny. We can create our own future, all of us. We have the power to rule our lives - we just have to make the choice to use it.

We are not powerless. We have tremendous potential for good or ill. How we choose to use that power is up to us; but first we must choose to use it. We're told every day, You can't change the world. But the world is changing every day. Only question is who's doing it? You or somebody else?

Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower those things to control us.

Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am master of my fate and captain of my soul.

It's your life-but only if you make it so.

Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.

we cant wait for someone else to do it, we have to take matters into our own hands or it will never be done.

We are masters because we have the power to create and to rule our own lives.