Quotes About Struggle

When we confront with reality, we not only loose peace of mind, but creative power and vision to respond our life.

It is far easier to make war than peace.

All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.

Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them as men. It treats them as mascots, pets, or things.

Somewhere in the rain, there will always be an abandoned dog that prevents you from being happy.

There was a point when I almost gave up. I couldn't feed myself. I couldn't feed my pets.

So many young pets burn out in Hollywood, it's crazy.

My philosophy is: if you don't bear a cross, you can't wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.

The philosophy of Africanism holds out the hope of a genuine democracy beyond the stormy sea of struggle

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

Somewhere between raising hell and amazing grace, Lord I know just how they feel.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

It was good, it was bad. But it was real, and that's all you have.

Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.

I was born by the river, in a little tent, and just like the river I've been running ever since.

The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected.

A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort

Life is a lemon and I want my money back.

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.

There's a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life.