Quotes About Adversity

Lord, this is some thick shit Black women must get through.

Even on those days the news is fully bad. And all you can do is get out of bed and failing that give thanks you have a bed not to get out of.

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.

How do we make new and restorative of soul the old pain? How do we learn to carry with grace and humor all that has happened to us?

We were not meant to suffer so much and learn nothing.

You got to fight them, Celie,' she say. 'I can't do it for you. You got to fight them for yourself.

She weak as a kitten. But her mouth just pack with claws.

I already had my bad luck,' she say. 'I had enough to keep me laughing the rest of my life.

RESISTANCE IS THE SECRET OF JOY! it says in huge block letters.

Life don't stop just cause you leave home, Miss Celie. You know that." Excerpt From The color purple Alice Walker This material may be protected by copyright.

her first published book, Once (1965).

Yeah, I say. He make it up in cigarettes, sell 'em for a dime. It rot your breath, I say, but yall want to try one? Not if it make us crazy, say Sofia. It hard enough to get by without being a fool.

But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

Like, sick as she is, if a snake cross her path, she kill it.

Here's to all the children who grow up without their fathers. The world is full of us ... and some of us have managed anyhow!

But this hard work, let me tell you. He been there so long, he don't want to budge. He threaten lightening, floods and earthquakes. Us fight. I hardly pray at all. Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.

But she keep on. You got to fight. You got to fight. But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

A renglón seguido, empezó a mejorar. Y es que la maldad te mata, dice Sofia.

But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.

History does not care about the suffering of the individual. Only the outcome of their struggles.

Even a cornered rabbit will fight with teeth and claws.

A cold realisation washed over me. From now on, my master would not always be there to protect and counsel me. 'This is big. Too big,' I said. 'What do I do?' 'You follow your destiny,' Ryoko said. 'As we all do. With honour and courage.

I have talked to many international sporting men and women and there is one common denominator that has driven them to excellence,' Atkinson continues. 'That is the frustration and hurt they have experienced from someone who has told them they would never achieve or be good at anything.