Quotes About Struggle

One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.

Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.

Out of frustration, I say things. Now, people listen to me so much I can say it under my breath and everybody hears me... I said in the past that I'm a work in progress, and I feel like I'm progressing.

I kept going because I just love football. But you get to the point where you're not getting the rewards or seeing any progression and that knocks your enthusiasm. That's why I decided to come to Oxford.

We have to continue our progressive struggle and defeat the conspiracies of dictatorship.

I was fortunate to write pretty much a year out of film school and start making movies in the Hollywood studio system. But with each progressive film it became more frustrating not being able to speak and say things I wanted to say.

I sometimes think, as bad as things seem for progressives in this world in the Trump era, it's worse than we think it is.

I never doubted my football, it's just a lot of things happened that prohibited me from playing.

When we were in D.C. my daddy used to cut his hair with a bowl. Crucial. If you're African, Haitan, Jamaican or even more poor than the people in the project, you'll know about that.

I get beat up on every project.

I have three adopted children with Phil, and for years I was fighting in court with him over being able to see my kids. I was always going back and forth to California, going to court, and I was never able to get a project going.

It was really hard to find another project after my first film.

Don't write something that is your passion project because all it will do is get the passion stomped out of you.

When I am about to have a difficult project, I dream I am climbing a mountain. When everything is going fine, I dream I am going down the mountain.

Not just in modeling, but in society, there's so much pressure about what a woman should be, and, of course, it's just so unobtainable. You can never become that thing, because it's such a projection.

There are many projects I couldn't get off the ground because they didn't have white heroes. It's a problem that everyone who's been working in Hollywood has been facing.

I grew up in the projects. You have no choice but to fight. My jokes used to get me in fights.

I do seem to try to make things harder and harder for myself. In some perverse way, obstacles interest me and I'm drawn to projects that end up being incredibly laborious.

I'm from the housing projects, where people can't afford $150 shoes.

My computer is littered with abandoned projects.

Grassroots projects are what keep you alive as an actor.

Living in the projects helped me with this role.

I've seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it's a script or a play or whatever, and it is a great project and they have great people involved, and they can't make it.

You can't manufacture a career as an actor because you aren't in control of what projects come to you, unless you are No. 1, two, three or four in the world.