Quotes About Struggle

I grew up as a Catholic, and there was so much that was beautiful there, and also so much that was troubling. The whole patriarchal thing, the whole male-dominated approach, really bothered me.

My feminism is what came squarely up against my faith. There's a lot of ecstatic post-patriarchal Christians who have stuff they do with that. But at that point, you're doing Christianity with a double-superscript. The Bible, and especially the book of Genesis, is pretty unapologetically patriarchal.

The problem isn't being a woman, and the problem isn't being Black; the problem is the people out there making it difficult for us - the patriarchy, the racism.

When you watch 'Doom Patrol,' you'll see most of the characters are trying to run away from their feelings and their emotions, and the minute they take a second and look at themselves face to face, that's when things can actually get resolved and get one step closer to peace.

Monsters are the patron saints of imperfection.

Michael Brown happened to be black. Trayvon Martin happened to be black. Eric Garner was a black man. So this pattern continues over and over.

I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

My inability to stick with any journal or calendar has been a pattern for God-since-forever.

I like it when my fights goes like when I fought Paul Daley.

I was diagnosed with necrotizing chronic pancreatitis, and it definitely put a pause on live performances for a while.

Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.

I sense that the road to Heaven is paved with dashed hopes.

The road hasn't always been paved for me. People identify with that. Everybody passes through hard times, and I think that's part of my appeal - that I have, too.

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

The fight goes on with or without me, I'm just a pawn. But at least I'm a pawn on the morally right side.

The people who pawn stuff never want to be on the show. And the reason behind that, I find out, is when people are pawning something, it's - they're getting a loan. They have to admit they're broke. For some reason or the other, something has happened, or they're financially irresponsible.

If life is tough, at least you got that thing you can pawn.

You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused.

I was once that kid that needed a donation - that needed help to go to camp because my mom wasn't able to pay for it.

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

I'm always workin', man. I gotta pay the light bills.

There's some dues that you just have to pay in life.

Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead.

Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless.