“There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need… you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.”

“Sometimes what we want isn't what we need.”

“Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.”
Emas non quod opus est, sed quod necesse est. Quod non opus est, asse carum est.

“What you need isn’t always what you want.”

“You need me? You yell. You want to leave? We go. I'll get you out of here, no matter what.”

“We may not get what we want, when we want. But with a bit of perseverance and a lot of patience, we can get what we need.”

“The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done.”

“What we really want to do is to be left alone. We don't want Negroes around. We don't need Negroes around. We're not asking— you know, we don't want to have them, you know, for our culture. We simply want our own country and our own society. That's in no way exploitive at all. We want our own society, our own nation….”

“Wish for what you want, work for what you need.
-Carmen's grandmother”

“But right now I’m here with you. And I want to know where you are, what you need, and what you want to do.”