Lauryn Hill Quotes

You the devil in drag. You can burn your cross, Well, I'll burn your flag.

Come on, fire bullets at me. I am prepared to die for the sake of the people.

Tell the House of Lords to go to hell.

Street art, of course, is political, because it's illegal, so the very act of doing it is an act of defiance.

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, "A spy upon your insatiable greed."

Rap is rock 'n' roll. Rock is when you push the buttons in the system; when you say, I'm not going along with what you're saying. That's rock, whether it's done with guitars, or it's done with just beats.

I will not dance to your war drum!

I poured out the torrent of my long-standing discontent and I challenged them to do and dare anything.

I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job

So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.

Do not submit. It is extremely critical that repression be met full head-on and that it be resisted with every fiber in our being. There is just absolutely no compromise that can be made with it.

Kicking a police car? Really?' Caleb shrugged. 'Car offended me. It was sitting right where I wanted to stand. What would you do?

I'd stood my ground against him. I wasn't going to jump when he said jump. I was more likely to give him the finger.

It was the night things changed, can you see it now? These walls that they put up to hold us back fell down It's a revolution, throw your hands up, 'cause we never gave in

The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.

I'm an adult. Discipline me and I'll bury you alive. - Roger

If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.

Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it.

What are you gonna do if I break one of your *&^%$ing rules?

The resistance is not something to be avoided, it's something to seek out.

You've got to shake your fists at lightning now, you've got to roar like forest fire You've got to spread your light like blazes all across the sky They're going to aim the hoses on you, show 'em you won't expire Not till you burn up every passion, not even when you die Come on now, you've got to try, if you're feeling contempt, well then you tell it If you're tired of the silent night, Jesus, well then you yell it Condemned to wires and hammers, strike every chord that you feel That broken trees and elephant ivories conceal

The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .