Anthony J. D'Angelo Quotes

At the end of the day, I come from a culture and an upbringing where you create your own path. There is no seat at the table for you? You create your own opportunity.

I'm the type of person that doesn't like to wait for people to do things for me, and I never want to feel stuck. Why sit around and be like, 'I wish my label would book me some studio time,' if I can just buy my own studio equipment and figure out how to run Pro Tools and record it myself?

Being from a small town, no one else was going to breathe life into my ideas other than me, so I had to go out there and do it.

I converted a problem into an opportunity.

If it's not happening, write your own thing!

Our highest endeavour must be to develop individuals who are able out of their own initiative to impart purpose & direction to their lives.

No one else has ever opened doors for me. I opened them myself.

A lot of kids are broken, and it's hard for them to believe in anything. But you have to have an imaginative mind and tell yourself, 'Hey, I can do whatever I want to.'

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes.

As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.

I've always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own.

You can make your own way. It's about getting out there and not letting rejection get you down.

If there aren't roles you want to play, then you've kind of got to create them.

If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.

I do think that there is a profound reservoir of creativity and imagination in everyone I've ever met, and sometimes if someone is persistent and perversely obstinate enough to persevere, then they want to be helped. There is a way to help them.

You just have to do; you can't live by the rules of what you're supposed to do. I think every person is good at something, and you just have to push that forward.

Anywhere the struggle is great, the level of ingenuity and inventiveness is high.

Nobody challenges me. I challenge myself.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told, and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Freedom is the right to question, and change the established way of doing things.…It is the understanding that allows us to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions. It is the right to put forth an idea, scoffed at by the experts, and watch it catch fire among the people. It is the right to dream-- to follow your dream, or stick to your conscience, even if you're the only one in a sea of doubters.

We can and we will solve our problems for ourselves. We know how. We can, and we will.

There are definitely a lot of roles I didn't get based off of the way I look, but I'm not going to let that stop me. I'm going to write stories for myself or work with filmmakers who want to tell stories about real people.