Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Quotes

Literature led me to freedom, not the other way round.

It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break free of attitudes that brought me down.

You have the power to let power go

I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!

When we truly recognize that our beliefs are that powerful-we hold the key to freedom.

You are free, you just don't know it" ~Michael to Sarah

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

Education is freedom.

Not to get too deep on shaving my mustache, but it was kind of symbolic of, 'This is a moment of liberation, a chance to reinvent yourself.' That's kind of what I did.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

Freedom can occur only through education.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

Hope is for people who wait. And I don't want to wait no more. I'm not scared anymore. I'm not scared of myself. Of my things. Of my fear. Of absolutely nothing. And that's music.

Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.

I am not convinced the truth can make men free, but I believe it a beginning.

My stay in Munich was the scene of my complete liberation.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Only the educated are free.

I have achieved an inner freedom.

The work does not end with the abolition of slavery but only begins.

Every day now, I discover something new. Go through phases in which I feel much more in touch with my feminine side in ways I never thought possible. I'm letting the woman inside of me speak, the desires of this woman, speak as loud as they can.

My job is to be the constructive awakener of the black masses of the world so them know themself and others know what black people suppose to be and where.

I feel like I've been known for having long black hair, so when I took all my extensions out and cut my own hair, it was the most freeing thing, I think, I've ever done. That was my 21st year: I cut my hair, I was doing Broadway; I was living in New York, and I was really having a moment of becoming my individual self, and it was amazing.

I think that what I have been truly searching for as a person, as a writer, as a thinker, as a daughter, is freedom. That is my mission. A sense of liberty, the liberty that comes not only from self-awareness but also from letting go of many things. Many things that weigh us down.