Quotes About Resilience

I will be a broken record for justice.

You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better.

You may have a broken heart, but you may find someone else.

So, I started teaching in 1999 in the South Bronx.

I'm from a rough place: the Bronx.

Remy Ma is from the Bronx and I'm from the Bronx. The stories in her music are similar to what I've experienced.

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

I started out in a two-room apartment in Brooklyn and thought, 'Never again.'

When I became a babyface again, I just had to turn the light on, brother.

I never knew my father. He was never married to my mother; he was never a part of my life. It was just my mom, my brother and me.

My father worked every day; my brother and sister had to travel many hours to study, so Atletico were for people like us.

It has not been an easy name, yet it has brought me many a laugh.

Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.

I look forward to putting out the new CD and doing the television performances to show everyone that B. Brown is back. In fact, I never left.

I was 5 when I got the speech about how I would have to work harder and longer than everyone else because I was brown.

I bruise like a grape.

I've learned to brush off many things.

When roles that mattered to me started drying up, I took to the brush and camera to connect with myself and the world.

The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn't have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I'm interested in the exceptions.

Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal.

Magazines can be kind of brutal, and independent magazines especially are really hard, and it takes work for it to feel like its actually a functioning place.

You either create something there on the street, or nothing happens. It's brutal. But if you go through that for two or three years, it really toughens you up.

I know how hard it is to come back from a brutal KO.

This game can be brutal. As soon as you get comfortable, it bites you. You have to stay on it all the time.