Quotes About Struggle

I know what it's like to be denied opportunity based on the nature of your skin.

It seems to be a common denominator with a lot of comics, this low self-esteem thing.

My father wanted me to be a dentist like him, or any doctor, really. There was this attitude of, 'The civil rights movement was not about you being an artist.'

I left my rhythm back in Denver.

I felt I could have been the kind of player Denver needed, but there were too many things going on with the team.

Life is so beautiful, but there are all these scary things you can't deny.

I won't deny the fact that us star kids have it easy.

We can't just depend on this rap game.

We are not rich and my family depended on me.

My father was very abusive, and it was hard for my mother at first to leave because we had depended on him for so long. Sometimes you kind of get adjusted to getting that beating.

Whenever you make someone dependent on your money... It's this capitalist idea that I think has made America into a place where it's hard to breathe as an individual sometimes.

Depending on what you allow, you can still get the blues, man. I'm still trying to figure out where the blues really lies, where the street is.

I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.

I'm not going to lie: you do get down sometimes, but I wouldn't say I was ever depressed; that's too hard a word. But you do become bored, because all you've done in your life is fight and box.

I was depressed a lot as a kid, and I was really sad and wouldn't be able to get out of bed.

I had decided to go to a theatre school for a dramatic training but after a few months, I dropped out. I was not comfortable. I was kind of depressed. It was then that I went to Second City.

I kind of like being depressed.

I didn't have a horrible life as a teenager but I was certainly depressed and had some pain in my life at that time. I've spent a lot of time thinking back on that time in my life. I think I am just fascinated by it.

Yeah, I get depressed. I think we all do.

I was pretty depressed when I was a teenager. The thing that spurred that on was that my dad died from cancer when I was 11 years old.

When I was at United, I had money, but I was still so down and depressed.

I did not know how to share with someone the fact that I was really, really depressed.

I'm one of those people that, if I'm sad or depressed, I don't talk to people about it. I bottle it in.

There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing.