Quotes About Struggle

We are all just humans trying to survive in this crazy world, in the spaces between birth and death.

a woman will tell youevery home she has ever inhabitedhas been broken intostarting with her body

I hear you knocking but I can't let you in. The last time almost killed me. Love, My heart

Yet this thou art alive, but if ye soar, My poor frail heart will have beat out its cryAnd sadly miss thy sweet form all the moreWhile helplessly I stand and watch you die.

Though I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go.You could not believe I was more than your echo.

Unlike the bough that shook off her dead leaves violentlylike a wet terrier, unlike the beating of the butterfly, her wings, against the cocoon, some dreams never made a move.

The greatness of poetry comes from its struggle to express the rapture of the soul in the contemplation of beauty.

the light too brief to finish any work —the woman seeks to amplify the dark

2.07 WALK OF LIFELife but like a cycle that you be riding, You will fall if you ever stop peddling, Life not of good cards you be holding, But those held and how you be playing.[68] - 4

a generation:the black night gave me black eyesstill I use them to seek the light

It ain't so easy writing about nothin

Trying to pump breath into a fairy tale is as arduous and tragic as ancient Greek theatre.

Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.

We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

Politics is a blood sport.

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

It is easier to run a revolution than a government.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

Political events are part of everyday life [in Colombia], so art and politics came to me as a natural thing, something that has been very much present in my life from the start.