Quotes About Struggle

You can equate our music to childbirth. It's brutal and harsh, but there's still a beautiful thing occurring.

I think we were damned lucky that our music never went down the drain because we went down the drain, and I think, in truth, there are moments where you could have said we got pretty close, you know.

Everything is harder for a woman in every kind of aspect and that's why we try to empower women with our music, our image and everything we stand for.

Land has been an issue of great concern to our people.

The inspiration behind '1950' was... gay history and the way that our people had to hide in public and how that affected the way that we love each other now.

Everything is not perfect in our world.

We often learn the hard way that our world is ruled by external factors. We don't always get what is rightfully ours, even if we've earned it.

What the Americans want to see is life in their drama. Life of all sorts: hard lives, easy lives, or lives which, like most of ours, are a mixture of the two.

Ours was not a normal or easy life.

Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.

If you have a large family like ours, you have to fight to get your point across, and I think I learned that from my dad.

Life doesn't have to be as hard as we make it for ourselves a lot of the time.

I think we all see ourselves as the heroes in our own lives.

There's always a way where we knock ourselves back down. It's the culture that we've been born into.

We never seem to make things easy for ourselves at Everton, and at City, it was the same, having to come from behind to get ahead in the big games.

You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.

I'll be damned if I'm going to let the white man lick me. There's something out here that I've got to do for my kids, and I'm not going to stop until I've done it.

No matter what, you're going to have hard days out here. There's going to be a drop here or a tough pass that you didn't come down with there.

As it has been told to me, my Dad had some kind of deal with Dick Clark. But when we got here, that fell through. So we were out here with no job, no furniture, no food.

There's a little racism out here, always was, and always will be.

I don't know why it took me some time to get used to the ways of this industry because I have realized that out here when people want to pull you down they really pull you down.

Those last days on the road were the worst. Nobody was talking to me or would hang out after shows or do anything. I was made an outcast of the band I'd helped start.

You are only part of the film industry if you are doing well, let me tell you. You will be invited to parties and flowers will reach you on your birthday. When you are not doing well, you are really an outcast.

School was horrific for me, constantly an outcast for being a geek.