Grace Jones Quotes

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

I love the ability to transform because that, for me, is a liberation.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

I'm just going to go live life. I'm going to go enjoy life. I have nothing left to hide. I am kind of a free person, a free soul.

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

Render yourself free to choose, to be, to live, to see.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

Let us first obtain ourselves…Give us ourselves and all that belongs to us will follow.

Step out of your cage And onto the stage It's time to start Playing your part Freedom awaits Open the gates Open your mind Freedom's a state

I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.

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.

I don't know what I'm going to end up doing, but its definitely in the right direction for freedom and truth.

If girls hear that they can create and fulfill their own ideas of who they might be, those extraneous expectations can become less restricting and a lot more healthy.

So, tomorrow, I’m leaving. And I’m not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I’m going to do what I want to do. I’m going to be who I really am. And I’m going to figure out what that is.

I'm history! No, I'm mythology! Nah, I don't care what I am, I'm free!

Liberty may be an uncomfortable blessing unless you know what to do with it. That is why so many freed slaves returned to their masters, why so many emancipated women are only too glad to give up the racket and settle down. For between announcing that you will live your own life, and the living of it lie the real difficulties of any awakening.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

I was kind of raised with the suggestion that I had a duty to do; that life was real, life was earnest. And I hated that, actually. I needed to be liberated, to be told that I could live the life that I wanted to live; that I didn't need a job, or to be shouted at; that I could be myself; that I could be happy.

Be free, and live life fully.

I'm doing what I want to do.

Education is freedom.

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

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