Arthur Mitchell Quotes

For me, it is freedom, freedom from everything: when I write, I'm not a woman. I'm not a Muslim. I'm not a Moroccan. I can reinvent myself, and I can reinvent the world.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

As I traveled from one country to another, no one knew anything about me. So I could be anybody, I could speak as I wished, act as I wished, dress as I wished.

Dance is the only thing that makes me feel good.

Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty.

It's nice to create something you believe in. It's even nicer to dance to your own tunes sometimes.

I dance because it makes me want to explode.

Our work is a scream of freedom.

If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’ s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’ s the most revolutionary insight of all.

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.

More having to do whatever anybody said you had to do. I couldn't really do anything on my own. But as I got older and then came to America and then Grace became my name, it somehow freed me. All of a sudden, I can be this other person.

My earliest memory of freedom was when I was about 14 and I stopped caring what people thought about me! I was so free and in charge! That whole year I was exploring myself, and I was so 'free' that I got sent away to boarding school.

I dance anywhere. I just start moving my feet.

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.

I've been dancing since I was five. To me, dance is a visual representation of being free and empowered.

The freedom of knowing that you're doing something off-kilter is liberating.

Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.

I want to incite people to loosen their oppression by giving them something to work with, to build on. They shouldn't be frightened of creating themselves - that's why I make things very open, with things for people to do.

I'm looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work - juggle, tap dance, anything I want.

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

If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are we can all be freer. And this is what HeforShe is about. It’s about freedom.

I won't work with people who won't give me the freedom to be me.

I get freedom out of hip-hop. I get to be a true artist without any shackles or harnesses.

When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.