Nas Quotes

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

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.

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?

Do we not own our own bodies?

Nobody can take you out of something, especially if you're the one who started it.

The world can be such a fright, but it belongs to us tonight.

You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.

Nobody's changing what you've got. You get to keep it.

Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” No. “No?” No. I loved being yours. But now I’m mine, which is all I ever was, in the end.

She believes that Tobias belongs to her now. She doesn't know the truth, that he belongs to himself.

We do have more control over our lives than any politician.

Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them.

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.

Life for rent means that my life isn't really my own, I only rented it for a while, but if I don't manage to buy it, to own it, then nothing of what I think is mine is really mine.

I want to go out on my terms.

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

And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than.

I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

I own 100% of everything because I like to control what I do.

I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

I am not a passenger in anything I do.

I'm lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do.