Henry Watson Bibb Quotes

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

If you don't want to be a slave, stop acting like a slave.

I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

I'm beyond caring what anyone expects of me anymore.

Freedom is control in your own life.

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

People ought to have more control over their lives.

I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.

I have my life, my world. I do what I want, without annoying anyone.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Every people should be originators of their own destiny.

I always had that yearning, that hunger, to one day be independent and be my own person and build my own world. The most fulfilling thing is to live a life where you have freedom.

Freedom resides within the soul.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.

Everybody has asked the question… “What shall we do with the Negro?” I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are wormeaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall! I am not for tying or fastening them on the tree in any way, except by nature's plan, and if they will not stay there, let them fall. And if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone!

I am myne owene woman, wel at ese

If one awakens in men the idea of freedom, then the free men will incessantly go on to free themselves…

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap.

The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right, to choose his own surroundings.

I wanted to be in control of my own destiny.

It's nice to finally be my own person.

Being independent is everything. That's all I know.

Now I do whatever I want.

Being independent opens the doors to so many other things for you.