Power & Society Sayings

I have a great contempt for all cant, whether religious, political, or moral.

All my life I have been fighting to be a woman. I have been fighting to be an individual. I have been fighting to be myself.

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can inflict on ourselves.

We are all in the mud, but some of us are looking at the stars.

I would like to live like a poor man with a lot of money.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

I'm not a politician. I'm an entertainer.

I'm not a politician. I'm a musician.

If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.

I'm not a politician. I'm just a musician.

I'm not a politician. I'm not a political man. I'm just a simple man who wants to see peace in the world.

Don't be a follower, be a leader. Don't be a loser, be a winner.

I'll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean, really, no fear!

I'm a very strong woman. I've always been a strong woman. And I will always be a strong woman.

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

I like living, breathing better than working.

The unencumbered woman, alone in the landscape, is a very strong image.

I'm not a political person. I'm a painter.

The colonized underdeveloped man is a political creature in the most global sense of the term.

The greatest misfortune of my life is that I was born into an age when I am so terribly misunderstood.