Quotes About Struggle

Ah ain't got tuh do but two things--stay black and die, Sister Berry snapped.

What yo' all reckon is the matter sho' 'nough? Must be something terrible when white folks get slow about putting us to work.

Ah had too many feelin's tuh tell which one tuh follow so Ah didn't cry and Ah didn't do nothin' else. But then she kept on astin me how come mah baby look white. She asted me dat maybe twenty-five or thirty times, lak she got tuh sayin' dat and couldn't help herself. So Ah told her, 'Ah don't know nothin' but what Ah'm told tuh do, 'cause Ah ain't nothin' but uh nigger and uh slave.

Le vent revint en triple furie, et une bonne fois pour toutes éteignit les lanternes. Ils restèrent assis en compagnie de tant d'autres comme eux dans d'autres baraquements, leurs yeux s'éreintant contre les murs rudimentaires, leur âme cherchant à savoir si Son intention était de mesurer leur piètre puissance à l'aune de la Sienne. Tous semblaient fixer l'obscur, mais leurs yeux dardaient sur Dieu.

Ah wanted to preach a great sermon about colored women sittin' on high, but they wasn't no pulpit for me.

All night now the jooks clanged and clamored. Pianos living three lifetimes in one. Blues made and used right on the spot. Dancing, fighting, singing, crying, laughing, winning and losing love every hour. Work all day for money, fight all night for love. The rich black earth clinging to bodies and biting the skin like ants.

I began to worry a bit. Ella kept on hurling slurs. So I said, Come on, Big Sweet, we got to go to home. Nope, Ah ain't got to do nothin' but die and stay black.

This freedom is a funny thing,' he told them. 'It ain't something permanent like rocks and hills. It's like manna; you just got to keep on gathering it fresh every day. If you don't, one day you're going to find you ain't got none no more.

They don't know if life is a mess of cornmeal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt!

Sometimes it looks like God's abandoned you, but not for any reason. To make your faith grow and to see that, no matter what happens, you come out OK... It's all for your good. It's all for love, and it's all for making you a strong person.

I could not write on 'Downton Abbey'.

I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

I was up above it. Now, I'm down in it.

They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can't even get my head above water!

I know some players who have played abroad. It was not always easy for them.

I know that the absence of my father in my life had its cost.

The thing is, it's really hard to be the No. 1 absolute best in the world at something, no matter what you're doing.

I am always running late for absolutely everything; my hair's the last thing I do because I am terrible at it.

Me and my wife started with absolutely nothing.

Child poverty is more than an abstract problem to me. It's something I know all too much about.

When I was a kid, it was very common to go places and get racially abused, starting from age six all the way up until you got into the first team.

I grew up in a terrible home of abuse and I didn't realize I was in a home of abuse.

The truth is, for many young people, the changing schools or starting a new academic year is really difficult to deal with.

I was spectacularly average at school, while my two brothers did really well academically. But my dad never said I didn't try hard enough. He knew I did my best.