Bell Hooks Quotes

There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.

Hey No one makes me do anything. Not my family. Not your family...not even you.

The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.

I don't live on other people's terms.

I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. And to retain this right, you will have to be willing to take the social or external risks involved in ignoring pressures to do things the way others say they should be done

This is a country of strong beliefs. Just because some two people say something, people don't bow down.

I do what I want to do instead of what other people think I should do, and I'm kind of stubborn that way.

I was not born to be forced.

I'd rather die my way than live yours.

I'm going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I'm not going to be what you want me to be.

There's people trying to tell me what to do, but I'm not like some marketing scam.

I really wasn't very much of a rebel. I'm seen by people now as more of a rebel which is strange. I don't like doing what people tell me to do. I don't deliberately rebel against them.

All my life I been doin' what people tell me to do. Now, I'm telling them.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told what to do. I think it goes back to school. I like to do things I want to do and I really don't like doing what I don't want to do.

I do not bow. I do not obey. I do not 'worship.'

No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

I don't like people telling me what to do. I'm very independent.

I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.

I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

One thing about me is that I don't like being told I can't do something.

I don't care what anyone says. It's my life, and I can do what I like.

I'm not the type of person that is forced.