Quotes About Determination

In the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway

I would do exactly what you are doing: I would talk to everyone I needed to, I would not tell too many people his name. When I was sure, she said, I would find a quiet way, and I would kill him.

If I was aware I would have to tie laces I would not have been able to put my feet into socks.

I explained myself like this: I did not feel adamant about saying no, but I also didn't feel adamant about saying yes, so until I felt strongly one way or another, I'd stick with no.

Je?eli dadz? ci papier w linie, pisz w poprzek.

I felt like observing my way out of there, but I didn't.

ll you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why, it will come.

In many ways I was an independent woman. For years I'd made my own choices, paid my own bills, shoveled my own snow.

I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.

Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.

Resistance is the secret of joy!

Sofia the kind of woman no matter what she have in her hand she make it look like a weapon.

the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness; without your dancing through the years that had no beat.

Whoever he is, he is not worth all this. And I will never unclench my teeth long enough to tell him so.

A little love, a little buckshot, that's how I'd say handle yourself.

She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that no is a word the world never learned to say to her.

You know Shug will fight, he say. Just like Sofia. She bound to live her life and be herself no matter what.

They were women then My mama's generation Husky of voice stout of Step With fists as well as Hands How they battered down Doors And ironed Starched white Shirts How they led Armies Headragged generals Across mined Fields Booby-trapped Ditches To discover books Desks A place for us How they knew what we MUST know Without knowing a page Of it Themselves.

Sofia take up the clothes, straighten them out, stand by the ironing board with her hand on the iron. Sofia the kind of woman no matter what she have in her hand it look like a weapon.

though we have all encountered our share of grief and troubles, we can still hold the line of beauty, form, and beat — no small accomplishment in a world as challenging as this one. Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is the proof.

the most common way people give up there power is by thinking they don't have any

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any

my friend comes. And cramps and aches and pains—but I must still keep going as if nothing is happening, or be an embarrassment

Don't let them run over you, Nettie say. You got to let them know who got the upper hand.