Quotes About Resilience

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.

Solving new problems is what keeps us moving forward as individuals and as a society, so don't back down.

No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.

There may be many who will gladly face death in the battlefield, but few who will face a hostile society.

I was raised in this society so you can't expect me to be a perferct person cause Ima do what Ima do.

We live in a society that likes to kick people when they're down. Don't be a fair-weather friend. Stick with people. They need you more in the tough times than they do in the good times.

I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me!

To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.

Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slavery is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you.

De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see. Ah been prayin' fuh it tuh be different wid you.

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes…. I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots.

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. So they beat him down to nothing but sparks but each little spark had a shine and a song. So they covered each one over with mud. And the lonesomeness in the sparks make them hunt for one another.

He taught me housekeeping when I divorce I keep the house.

Wenn ein Mann zurueckweicht, weicht er zurueck. Eine Frau weicht nur zurueck, um besser Anlauf nehmen zu koennen.

Die hellen Tage behalte ich, die dunklen gebe ich dem Schicksal zurück.

So liebesüberströmt, so kussüberfallen wie Mia, Franz und Henri neben Dir aufwachen, können sie keinen Schaden nehmen. Das ist nicht möglich. Wenn doch, nur den üblichen kleinen Schaden. Den alle Menschen nehmen.

Lomhlaba Unzima, Lohmhlaba. This world is a harsh place, this world.

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.