Kerry James Marshall Quotes

The one thing I wanted was independence. And I realised to have that independence, you needed financial independence.

Money equals freedom.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

I'm for economic independence.

I never planned to be rich, frankly speaking. I was more interested in being free, and doing things. And money helps. But otherwise I was never that interested in it.

I feel very lucky that I don't have to rely on a man to give me financial security. That's a big deal.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

It's nice for a woman to go out and have her own money and her own ability to do what she wants.

Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)

Freedom is not having a big budget.

I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself.

Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.

To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.

Let no one who can be his own belong to another.

Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy.

Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.

You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it.

My dream was to not work for anyone. There's only so many things I was good at - and how am I not going to work for anyone? I just don't want people telling me what to do.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

I started on a very high note and I was alwasy able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my last breath. And to do that, you have to have money.