Quotes About Struggle

There's something romantic about poverty when you're young and hopeful.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills.

We can have everything. No, we can't. We can have the whole world. No, we can't. We can go everywhere. No, we can't. It isn't ours any more. Its ours. No, it isn't.

When the fish had been hit it was as though he himself were hit. But I killed the shark that hit my fish, he thought.

And what beat you, he thought. Nothing, he said aloud. I went out too far.

i looked at him and his marked-for-death look and i thought, you con man conning me with your con. i've seen a battalion in the dust on the road, a third of them for death or worse and no special marks on them, the dust for all, and you and your marked-for-death look, you con man, making a living out of your death. now you will con me. con not, that thou be not conned. death was not conning with him. it was coming all right.

A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes part of the experience of the person who reads it.

No matter what you do, no matter how hard you work, how much you love, they catch you off guard one day and break you.

Writing is too goddamned hard for me to think about a soul in teh world ... I don't think about a soul, but just try to get those goddamned characters to act right.

I didn't want to show it. Because if what he was saying was true, there wasn't a thing I could do about it. Marshall was too big. If it was just Bonbon who wanted to hurt Marcus, you might be able to prevent that. Bonbon was nothing but a poor white man, and sometimes you could go to the rich white man for help. But where did you go when it was the rich white man? You couldn't even go to the law, because he was the law. He was police, he was judge, he was jury.

had two reasons. Ned was by himself in this world, except for me, and I didn't want no man and no children spiting him just because he was an orphan. The other reason I never looked at a man, I was barren. An old woman on the place had told me that. I went to her one day and told her how my body act and didn't act. After we had sat down and talked a while, she said one word: "Barren." I went to a doctor and he told me the same thing: "You barren, all right.

They had chopped wood here too; then they were gone. Gone to the fields, the small towns, the cities – where they died. There was always news coming back to the quarter about someone who had been killed or who had been sent to prison for killing someone else: Snowball, stabbed to death in a nightclub in Port Allen; Claudee, killed by a woman in New Orleans; Smitty, sent to the state penitentiary for manslaughter. And there were others who did not go anywhere but simply died slower

Me, Mr Wiggins. Me. Me to take the cross. Your cross, Nannan's cross, my own cross. Me, Mr Wiggins. This old stumbling nigger. Y'all axe a lot, Mr Wiggins.

The last thing they ever want is to see a black man stand, and think, and show that common humanity that is in us all. It would destroy their myth. They would no longer have the justification for having made us slaves and keeping us in the condition we are in. As long as none of us stand, they're safe. They're safe with me. They're safe with Reverend Ambrose. I don't want them to feel safe with you any more.

I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.

I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever.

The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day

I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.

HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE

There are no boundaries in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, for a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory; just as any country's defeat is a defeat for all of us.

The course of the world constantly and inevitably frustrates our moral demands.

Viele Wege viele wege kreuzen sich in mir und gehe ich immer mehrere straßen zugleich. ich bin arm. aber es kommt mir vor: dann wäre ich reich wenn unter diesen wegen einer ein ausweg wäre. viele wege kreuzen sich in mir und ich gehe immer mehrere straßen zugleich. ich bin arm. aber es kommt mir vor: dann wäre ich ärmer wenn unter diesen wegen einer ein ausweh wäre.

most people would rather live in the predictability of captivity than risk the uncertainty that comes in a fight for freedom.

It is defeat that strips you bare and forces you to see your truest self. Success allows you to maintain the illusion of who you are. It is in failure that you come to know yourself best. When you face defeat, all you're left with us yourself. It is then you will face your greatest battle.