Quotes About Courage

If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place

Jes' 'cause women folks ain't got no big muscled arm and fistes like jugs, folks claim they's weak vessels, but dass uh lie. Dat piece uh red flannel she got hung 'tween her jaws is equal tuh all the fistes God ever made and man ever seen.

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear. Zora Neale Hurston

Ah'm uh bitch's baby round lady people.

I began to worry a bit. Ella kept on hurling slurs. So I said, Come on, Big Sweet, we got to go to home. Nope, Ah ain't got to do nothin' but die and stay black.

I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

I don't think fear can be abolished.

My confidence is not in man, it's in God, and so I look forward to the semi-finals with that in mind, absent of fear.

Had I considered over the course of time the moments where maybe I was the first woman to do this or that, it would have scared the absolute daylights out of me.

I was an abused kid.

They don't pay me enough to take any racial abuse. If you come up to me and say something racially, I'm going to take your head off.

If I choose to direct something, it's because I don't think it would get accepted.

I fear no accusations.

I'm accustomed to being harassed.

When I've been asked what should be on my gravestone, I've said: 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out.' Two big achievements.

I think that I can act.

I think I've always acted confident, even at times I haven't been confident.

I'd love to be an action hero.

You've got all these people making action movies, and they've never been in a life-or-death situation.

Not living in fear is a form of activism.

I have been involved in some films other actresses would not have done.

I'm not afraid to address anything ever.

I have such admiration and respect for the military and military families.