Quotes About Struggle

When childhood ended, I had to suppress feminine characteristics and try and be a boy. I didn't want to grow up at all because it meant becoming someone else.

It's always a long process of trying to suppress the self-doubt on set when you're acting.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.

I think black women feel an obligatory pressure to be stronger than everybody else, not necessarily to suppress the pain.

As time goes on, we suppress our dreams, which really makes me sad.

Each and every life that has fled communism has proven how the will to pursue democracy and freedom, even in the face of oppression, can never be suppressed or silenced.

I was suppressed for many years. From the outside, you'd think I had a very normal life.

Wherever people are suppressed, revolution always begins.

I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed.

I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed.

I'm a very creative person, but that side of me was suppressed because I was academic. I was depressed at school, and I didn't know why.

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

The racial dynamics over here are fraught. White supremacy is overt. It's the reason I don't want to raise my kids here.

I think, for me, just trying to be the 'non-threatening black woman,' constantly being, like, super-bubbly! And relatable! It takes a lot of energy! The energy you have to put into playing into the system of white supremacy, so that you can be just given a chance.

White supremacy is deeply entrenched in our nation's DNA.

I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered.

White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.

We question these issues of race and struggle and white privilege because we know that those issues are real and because those issues have real implications in black communities. And white supremacy is not only dangerous, but it is deadly.

The force that has come closest across American history to actually ending America was white supremacy. That was the Civil War.

There is no force that can put an end to the human quest for freedom, and China will, in the end, become a nation ruled by law, where human rights reign supreme.

Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose.

Presidents and speakers for over 100 years had tried to pass affordable care for all Americans. It was challenged over and over. The Supreme Court declared it constitutional.

Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan each suffered through his second four years. FDR was checkmated by Congress and the Supreme Court. Ike was dogged by Sputnik and reckless charges that the United States suffered from a Missile Gap. Reagan had to wend his way through Iran-Contra.