Quotes About Struggle

There is so much corruption on so many levels of democracy that the common man is deprived of the basic rights.

As a child, I have seen what poverty is, and I try, to the best of my limits, to ensure that no kid should be deprived of his ambitions.

Every child must have a childhood they deserve. But unfortunately, millions of children are deprived childhood and their dreams crushed under the burden of poverty.

There is a quality of selfishness that is associated with an individual when they are in the depths of addiction.

I am not Pollyannaish about the depths of the challenges we face.

We in New York were very poor in the depths of the Depression - but I must say, that was the best time of my life.

You'd prefer to fight somebody that you really would rather derail their whole career.

If anything is life-changing, being the descendant of a slave is.

Why an artist loves what they do is often so hard to describe.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

The way I like to describe Hollywood today is this: everyone wants to make 'Deliverance,' but no one wants to be Ned Beatty.

The American writer has his hands full, trying to understand and then describe and then make credible much of American reality.

From the day I got out, it was an evolutionary process. I was sick for, like, two years - that's the best way I can describe what was happening with me. But as time went by and I finished law school, it became clear to me that I needed a platform.

I'm really bad at describing my own life.

I'm black. I grew up poor. I grew up in New York during the stop-and-frisk era. I've been stopped because I fit a description before.

A cactus doesn't live in the desert because it likes the desert; it lives there because the desert hasn't killed it yet.

I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.

I crossed the Gobi desert to be free and now I thought I live in a country where I can say what I believe and have my freedom to think. However, now I have to constantly censor my speech because in the name off a 'safe place.'

Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.

Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.

When I was 15, Dad left the family for good. I didn't want to believe it at the time, but the fact was that he deserted us kids and abandoned Mom after 25 years of marriage.

The new Khaled is enjoying life, man. Because you know what, nobody is going to congratulate you on what you really deserve.

You don't get what you deserve - it would be amazing if life worked out that way.

I think I have done enough for sports and made enough of a name for myself to deserve some sort of backing - most of the other girls have it.