Quotes About Determination

They plan and they fix and they do, and then some kitchen-dwelling fiend slips a scorchy, soggy, tasteless mess into their pots and pans…So when the bread didn't rise, and the fish wasn't quite done at the bone, and the rice was scorched, he slapped Janie until she had a ringing sound in her ears and told her about her brains before he stalked on back to the store.

But I ain't puttin' it in de street. Ah'm tellin' you.' 'Ah jus lak uh chicken. Chicken drink water, but he don't pee-pee.

Ah done growed ten feet higher from jus' listenin' tuh you, Janie. Ah ain't satisfied with mahself no mo'. Ah means tuh make Sam take me fishin' wid him after this.

Jump at the sun. You might not land on the sun, but at least you'll get off the ground.

To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat. I have no urge to make any concessions like that to the world as yet. I might be like that some day, but I doubt it. I am in the struggle with the sword in my hands, and I don't intend to run until you run me. So why give off the smell of something dead under the house while I am still in there tussling with my sword in my hand?

So I do not pray. I accept the means at my disposal for working out my destiny. It seems to me that I have been given a mind and will power for that very purpose.

De object wuz tuh git dere. So Ah got up on de high stool lak she told me, but Pheoby, Ah done nearly languished tuh death up dere.

I am striving desperately for a toe-hold on the world.

But nothin' can stop you from wishin'.

But, don't care how firm your determination is, you can't keep turning round in one place like a horse grinding sugar cane.

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes....Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world - I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

He's got uh throne in de seat of his pants.

If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk.

Zora Neale Hurston

The thing to do is to grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

That was the rock she was battered against.

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear

The woman took the faded shirt and muddy overalls and laid them away from remembrance. It was a weapon against her strength and if it turned out of no significance, still it was a hope that she might fall to their level some day.

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Jes' 'cause women folks ain't got no big muscled arm and fistes like jugs, folks claim they's weak vessels, but dass uh lie. Dat piece uh red flannel she got hung 'tween her jaws is equal tuh all the fistes God ever made and man ever seen.

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear. Zora Neale Hurston

Ah wouldn't give uh bitch uh bone if she treed uh terrapin.

Ah wanted to preach a great sermon about colored women sittin' on high, but they wasn't no pulpit for me.

Dance is my passion and love, and I am not abandoning it for anything.