Quotes About Adversity

You may not be able to control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them

I have waited toes curled, hat rolled heart and genitals in hand on the back porches of forever in the kitchens and fields of rejections on the cold marble steps of America's White Out-House in the drop seats of buses and the open flies of war

When access to a better life has been denied often enough, and successfully enough, one can use the rejection as an excuse to cease all efforts [...] And if I do nothing, I have every right to my idleness, for, after all, haven't I tried?

He badder than death yet gives no sweet release.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you o not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution. Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighbourhood. Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.

Who would answer all the questions, fulfill all the requests? Would anyone? Could anyone? History had taught the citizens of Watts to hope for the best and expect nothing, but be prepared for the worst.

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does

El talento de los niños para resistir se debe a su ignorancia de otras posibilidades.

we were right-handed into a dully furnished living room. L.D.

When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness." —

But on that onerous day, oppressed beyond relief, my own mortality was borne in upon me on sluggish tides of doom.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them." —Maya Angelou

I can change by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

I've sailed upon the seven seas and stopped in every land, I've seen the wonders of the world, not yet one common man.

Centered on the world's stage, she sings to her loves and beloveds, to her foes and detractors: However I am perceived and deceived, however my ignorance and conceits, lay aside your fears that I will be undone, for I shall not be moved.

You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise.

They were reminded in a popular song of the times, If you can't smile and say yes, please don't cry and say no.

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise.

We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.

The rope at my back and the pad on the floor, the smack of four hammers, new bones in my jaw, the guard in my mouth, my tongue startin' to swell. Fightin' was livin'. Boxin' was real. Fightin' was real. Livin' was … hell.

We turned other cheeks so often our heads seemed to revolve on the end of our necks, like old stop and go signs.

And still I rise

I think that everyone thought that the Depression like everything else, was for the white-folks, so it had nothing to do with them.