“I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.”– Gordon Parks Related Quotes “Cuba will be free. I already am.”— Reinaldo Arenas “And for a moment?for a split second?everything else falls away, the whole pattern and order of my life, and a huge joy crests in my chest. I am no one, and I owe nothing to anybody, and my life is my own.”— Lauren Oliver “I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.”– Rosabeth Moss Kanter