“I don’t take nothin’ from no one. I do what I wanna do. And I’m gonna do that until the day I die. And if I can’t do that, then I’ll just die.”

I know my role and I play it well.

My life is like a movie and I do my own stunts.

I know how important voting and elections are. But everybody know that life is going to be life regardless of who is president.

I speak the truth but I guess that’s a foreign language to ya’ll!

I’m blessed and I thank God for every day for everything that happens for me.

I gotta die with money cuz i wasn’t born with it.

I’m the only fire that can live in the rain.

I’m not the same as other people. I don’t think the same. I don’t do the same things. I just feel out of this world sometimes.

I like people that enjoy life, ’cause I do the same.

I hate failure and I am in love with achievement.

The only thing on the mind of a shark is to eat.

Don’t judge me. You wanna judge me, put on a black gown and get a gavel. Get in line with the rest of them that’s about to judge me. I got court dates every other month. It’s me against the world – that’s how I feel.

Swallow my words. Taste my thoughts. And if it’s too nasty, spit it back at me!

Life goes on but the scars remain.

I am from the jungle where the lion eats the cobra.

I don’t need it to be easy. I just want it to be worth it.

She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

We’d been apart so long-I’d been dead so long, she said in English. I thought surely you’d built a new life, with no room in it for me. I’d hoped that.

I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason toward my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.

I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.