Quotes About Perseverance

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

But she more evil than my mama and that keep her alive.

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

Some womens can't be beat.

All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my cousins and my uncles. A girl child ain't safe in a family of men.

There is a way forward and yes it is with a broken heart but it is our own way collectively convened, pondered, shared.

THEY CANNOT KILL US, BECAUSE WITHOUT US THEY DIE.

She say, Nothing but death can keep me from it. She never write.

Perhaps our planet is learning to appreciate the extraordinary wonder of life that surrounds even our suffering, and to say Yes, if through the thickest of tears.

Carlotta had not dreamed her numbed heart could be broken still more, or that breaking the heart opens it.

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.

In 2005, The Color Purple became a phenomenally successful Broadway musical, playing to packed houses every night for over a year. In the process it transformed the "Great White Way" into a place where people of all colors, orientations and identities gathered to experience the show and to celebrate "God" as Life and Love, Perseverance, Hope, Creativity and Joy.

What I love best about Shug is what she been through, I say. When you look in Shug's eyes you know she been where she been, seen what she seen, did what she did. And now she know.

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.

LA RESISTENCIA ES EL SECRETO DE LA ALEGRÍA!, dice en grandes letras de molde. Hay un estruendo como si el mundo se quebrara y abriera. Vuelvo adentro. Ya no soy más. Y estoy satisfecha.

We will never regret having been born in this cruel time for we recognize it for what it is: the time of fullness of heart.

I am telling you Discouraged One we will win. And I will show you why. We are the offspring of the ignorantly discarded: we conjure sunrise with our smiles and provoke music out of trash. Who can completely disappear such genius?

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

I'm pore, black, I may even be ugly, but dear God, I'm here! I'm here!

she say her head feel like its full of little white men with hammers.

What I love best bout her is what she been through, I say. When you look in her eyes you know she been where she been, seen what she seen, did what she did. And now she know.