Quotes About Adversity

If you can imagine what it's like to launch a business in the middle of a lawsuit - it's not an easy thing.

I'm from a middle class family, but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people.

I'm not good with limitations. I tend to like to find my own. It hurts sometimes, but it's good. I'm little extreme in that sense - the middle ground is not my forte.

I didn't graduate eighth grade. I could have, but I got into too many fights in middle school.

My dad died of a heart attack when I was 15. I was bullied mercilessly in middle school. I went through a divorce - those not-so-great things are all a part of me, and they give me a place to go when I cover those stories on the news. I'm more empathetic, more relatable because of them.

I was bullied in elementary to middle school. It messed with my self esteem.

It is in the midst of disasters that bold men grow bolder.

In the midst of having great fights, sometimes you have good fights and sometimes you just have a fight.

I might not always be given the respect that I should have, but it's what fuels me.

I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

We have had to play some mighty tough audiences.

Run The Jewels, me and Mike, and our connection and everything, came out of a period of time where I had personally lost everything.

I played very well in AC Milan, but I had two years of injury problems. I needed to change team and the city for my mentality.

As I said in the past, when I chose to come to AC Milan I knew I would go through good and bad times.

When I found myself facing jeers by wearing the shirts of Juventus and Milan, I always accepted them.

I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.

When I got started in New York, it wasn't like it is now. If you were different from Miles and Dizzy, it was very difficult to make gigs and make money with your own style.

I made an a capella cover of Kesha when everyone else was listening to Miles Davis and people didn't like it. They imitated me.

I've written not milestones of cinema but millstones.

Our lives are a series of lowered expectations year after year. We got pounded by everything around us. Just like our parents and their parents. We are products of our social and economic milieu.

We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

I got kicked out of all Gwinnett schools 'cause I got in a fight, and I had to go to military school.

Life happens, honey. What are you going to do? Cry in a bowl of milk?