Quotes About Resilience

Even as a dope fiend mama. You always was a black queen mama.

My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.

Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.

I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.

Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the cradle, the mother from her babe, and the father from the family.

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

We were so poor we had no hot water. But it didn't matter because we had no bathtub to put it in anyway.

My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.

May the Lord bless the family and strengthen it in this moment of crisis

Some people don't have a family to fall back on, like I have, and that's when something greater than even that comes in, and that's faith and that's what I have for me, that's what keeps me strong.

... family and friends aren't always ready to make the journey when you are, and you just have to keep plowing along whether they have confidence in you or not. That can be very lonely.

I needed to feed my family. I read a couple of the episodes. How can you keep on doing the same thing?

It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.

So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami.

My strength never came from political echelons, it came from the family. And from the fields and the lands and the flowers and everything I see there. My strength came from there.

Trying your best to bring the water to your eyes, thinking it might stop her from woopin' your behind.

You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing.

Vulnerability and me go hand and hand now. I try to put myself first so that I can take care of my family so I try not to fight vulnerability as much now.

I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.

I find that a lot of times when family members get bronchitis or the flu or something like that, I'll kind of skate through and be really lucky and not get that sick.

I told myself that some families we get without asking, while others we choose. And I chose those two. I think that's what you'd call a silver lining.

Disease may score a direct hit on only one member of a family, but shrapnel tears the flesh of the others.

The introduction of heartache began as a child.

What are you doing son, you're gonna drive yourself insane. You'll never find the sunshine, when you're following the rain.