“I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.”

As for us, during twenty years’ reign, we have known much bitterness.

If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.

Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.

To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble.

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.

She’s not your unicorn. She’s her own mother fucking dragon.

Ultra-independence is a trauma response.

I hate the idea of always having to interpret other people’s ideas and thoughts and words, because I’m very independent and, I guess, a free thinker.

Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.

The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!

I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.