Quotes About Struggle

You can't judge somebody when they're doing well: You've got to judge them when they're going through adversity.

I know something about adversity.

I've had to fight through a lot of adversity, but I just kept fighting.

We've all got to deal with adversity in life. It's something that's not new to me.

Everyone thinks I am rich, I have a plush office, I make advertisements and travel - but only I know the kinds of problems I face.

I never thought I would start working again, and I did, but it was really hard, and I don't know that I would advise anyone to step back the way I did.

Counter-insurgency, as you know, is a roller-coaster affair.

One of the reasons I didn't tell people I had cancer was I thought it might affect work.

Obviously, cancer has affected my life, mostly everyone in the world in some level.

I feel like everyone at some point has been affected by cancer, whether it's family or a friend.

I really wanted people to see that just because I'm successful doesn't mean I'm not going to be affected by racism.

We all know someone who has been affected by cancer.

The kind of life I led really affected my family.

I don't want to sound like a whiner here, but if you get beat up all the time, it affects you.

Failure affects me hard.

Slavery is something that affects all of us. It's all of our history.

The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.

Where I came from, people couldn't afford to go to the theatre.

The only real goal I had was, I wanted to own a car. Because my father, most of the time, he couldn't afford a car. Once in a while he would have a car, but it would be 10 or 15 years old, an old jalopy.

You know what I had a problem with? The war - the war in Afghanistan.

The struggle of African Americans is everybody's struggle.

Like I said, being an African-American man, you can tell there's two Americas we're living in. They don't want us to be equal.

In the afternoon, it's impossible to put down any new words. I don't even try.

I moved to London to get an agent, though that took a while - everyone said no, understandably.