Barack Obama Quotes

I don't want everyone to like me, and I don't choose who likes me. You have to give them the choice, give them the option.

I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.

Whose world is this? The world is yours.

You belong wherever you want to belong.

Stop waiting for others to change. Recognize that every person has the right to be whatever they choose-even if you irritate yourself about it.

I belong wherever I want to be.

Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

My days are whatever I want them to be.

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

Even more than feeling healthy, most people want to feel free and in control.

I always get to eat what I want because if I don't, I go insane.

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

I never going to satisfy everybody, so I decided to satisfy myself.

Yeah, they let me do whatever I wanted to.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

I enjoy making the decisions.

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

Now I get to pick and choose exactly what I want to do.

I love wearing makeup! It's just that if you choose not to wear it, that's OK. And if you choose to wear it, that's OK as well.

People can dress you the way they want, they can do your makeup the way they want, but they can never take away your voice.

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.

We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?

You have to do what you want to do, and I genuinely believe that if you start interacting in the world that way that there is a respect in that.

I am who I am.