Quotes About Struggle

Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.

Nothing exasperates the spirit in man more than power which seems unconquerable and which makes impotent all protest.

Any time you do something - a protest - you know there's going to be backlash.

Minorities, Dalits, farmers, students, writers - all have faced the brunt of the Narendra Modi government and risen in protest.

My father was never really a big part of my life, he ended up passing away a few years ago, my biological father. And the guy I consider my dad, he was incarcerated for a crime he didn't even commit, which is part of the reason I protest.

Poverty leads to protests.

I spent much of my life dying for somebody to help me even file for a patent or make a prototype. I understand that.

The proud fight against colonialism is one that should be consigned to history.

Most of the people I know, their marriages went down the drain, like mine - something I am not proud of.

This is one of my lesser moments, and one I'm not proud to admit to, but there's always a time I feel the need to have control over the process and try to defend the song from the person I'm writing with. It never, ever helps and always causes problems.

To be gay is nothing to be proud of. It's in how you are gay that you have something to be proud of, considering the obstacles placed in your path if you are gay.

I feel like I have something to prove. I'm just not this cool fashion kid that be around ASAP Rocky.

When I left for Chelsea, I wanted to prove that I could play in the Premier League, but it didn't happen the way I dreamed.

I've really fought to get into rooms, and I'm a big believer in auditioning. It's hard, because I'm insecure, but I have an intense desire to prove myself to people.

When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going.

No one's calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.

Trying times will begin when I will take up my second film as that's when people will take me more seriously. I will have to prove myself too.

I have a chip on my shoulder I pet every morning, a constant feeling like I have something to prove. Hearing that the canon can't be diversified, there's no room for more brown faces - that fueled my fire.

Being injured, coming back, playing a few games, trying to get your fitness back, getting injured again - you don't get a chance to prove what you can do.

I didn't have any godfather in the industry and had to prove myself with each film.

I had to prove myself to a lot of different people.

My first impression when I made it through was 'Good, because I'm going to prove to you that I deserve to be here', because they told me that sometimes I lack confidence in my performance and sometimes I'm not as consistent as they'd like me to be.

I have to prove myself five times over.

On 'Heartbreaker,' I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did those songs. I communicated the way I did those songs. With 'Gold,' I was trying to prove something to myself. I wanted to invent a modern classic.