Quotes About Challenges

Being a rapper and still trying to pursue an education is really overwhelming sometimes.

It's different, it's weird to say, 'She's a white rapper or she can't do this because she's this color - this color does this thing. These are the boxes we have, this is what it is, don't try to change it.' And it's crazy to me because I'm just not from that world, so I can't really rock with it all the way.

My relationship with my first child was nonexistent. I was broke and I was a new rapper whose career was spiraling downward.

My name is actually Snoh, but there's a rapper with that name already out there, so I was asked to add something to it. I didn't really want to do it at first, but then I thought of Aalegra. It has a connection to music and means 'joy' in Italian.

I've been around so long that I've seen rappers make it and plummet.

Female rappers get it the hardest. You have to be a girl, yet you have to be just as hard as the guys. I think some female rappers get scared out of the business before they can make it.

I hate when rappers do interviews. They say stuff like, 'If I wasn't doing this, I'd be dead or in jail.' Like, damn, those are the only two options? What about managing Kinkos?

It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.

It's very rare that Black actors get an opportunity to do period pieces and to have a breadth of characters to choose from in their work.

I've been in movies where the movie doesn't come together but the role comes together, or the movie comes together but the role doesn't come together or something like that. Something misses. It's very difficult to make it hit on all cylinders - it's just very rare.

It's very rare when we are in control of everything. Sure, I can learn my lines, I can know my character really well, but there are so many factors going on throughout the day.

I think it's so hard to get really, really strong parts where the actress can act. It's rare.

It's rare to get a part in a show that's greenlit, let alone two shows that have been greenlit.

It's very rare that stand-up comics have kids, because once they do, they stop doing stand-up.

For so long, the fashion industry has designed almost exclusively for a particular woman with particular measurements, and they've never really been challenged on it. We're all consumers, yet we're rarely given a voice within this industry that dictates what we wear.

The path to equality is rarely easy.

I like 'Guys and Dolls,' 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'A Star Is Born.' When it works, a musical is an amazing thing. But it rarely works.

We often hear of a male director directing a great indie and immediately being offered the next huge comic book movie. Rarely, if ever, does this happen to a woman.

I've rarely seen portrayals of photojournalists that seem accurate.

Politicos talk a big game about bringing jobs to devastated cities like Detroit, but rarely succeed.

As roles go, very rarely do you get a role written for you or a director who wants you and only you for the part.

There are players like that - you know they have been rascals, and that you can bring them in, give them a new environment and get a length of time out of them, but they will always return to type. You can get something out of them, then you have to get rid of them.

He and I were about as compatible as a rat and a boa constrictor.

When you look at the increase in the number of scripted series and the number of unscripted hours, the pool of producers hasn't grown at the same rate. So I think there's a bit of a creative tax on the system.