Nia Long Quotes

I've always done whatever I felt like, even if it was really inadvisable.

It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you.

I'm an escapist. I'm not a planner; I've never made a decision about anything in my life. The good thing about Africa is that you can escape forever. You can do what you want without someone looking over your shoulder.

The fundamental job of a toddler is to rule the universe.

I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.

My wife, if she wants it, she will just go out and buy it.

The way I define what I do is, basically, I do whatever I want.

The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for them.

It's natural to want to have the things your peers do, adopting a lifestyle that lets you have the best of all worlds, but it's a trap. Don't let any person, thing or even a lifestyle have the power to control you. Learn to break free and be independent.

I remember when I was like 9, 10, 11 going into stores and saying, 'Wow! I wish I had this.'

I wanted to be free to try any silly thing I decided to do.

The vividness of children is easier to see when they're completely left to their own devices.

For I was never able to understand, then or later on, why, if one wanted to do a thing, one should not do it. For I have never waited to do as I wished. This has frequently brought me to disaster and calamity, but at least I have had the the satisfaction of getting my own way.

I never had a plan. I just sort of ambled along, doing exactly what I wanted every day of my life.

I was rather free, and I always did what I wanted to do, sometimes without listening to the people who warned me not to do this or that.

No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another direction -- toward anarchy and poverty and craziness. That maddening delusion that a man can lead a decent life without hiring himself out as a Judas Goat.

I Play When I Want to Play.

All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself

It is much harder to become independent if you are wealthy than to become wealthy if you are independent.

He doesn't need my help coming up with pranks. He's got too many ideas of his own. - Daja referring to Briar in their first year at Discipline cottage

Dim them lights get it in pimp tight do wat i do i lace up my own nikes.

Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently willful? "Keep her," I replied.... The suffragettes refused to be polite in demanding what they wanted or grateful for getting what they deserved. Works for me.

My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision.

I don't go by the rule book