Quotes About Struggle

You have to start with slavery because those abuses have never been eradicated. You know, people are not living in slums because they voted to. You know, their children are not in jail because they wanted them to. You know, these are the results of a people who have been oppressed and suffer national oppression, you know.

I get really very upset when I'm voted out, and I feel very disappointed.

Life is tougher for Americans - especially for those who voted by the highest percentages for President Obama's promise of hope and change.

When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't become a registered voter until I moved to Tennessee, to Nashville, as a student.

Some of the most hard-working, generous people I've met in my whole life didn't really want to vote for him but did. My calling is to step onto the other side and humanise and portray the struggles of many Trump voters.

What the voters want to know is who is going to get out there, fight for them, and deal with the income gap that exists in the nation today.

Trump's voters loathe Jeb Bush because their lives are falling apart, and they blame people like him.

I am the evil seed.

When I'm done playing, when I seem like I'm retiring, I don't love the game anymore.

When I talk about work or my take on life, all the joyfulness and excitement never seem to make it in.

Essays just aren't my thing: no matter how hard I tried, it seemed I was always a bit average.

Every time I got close, somebody seemed to play a little better.

We don't all have perfect lives, even if they are seemingly so.

That's the thing with acting. There are always loads of people who are more successful, richer, more famous and seemingly able to do anything they want.

I just don't want to be seen as a strong person.

I'm the son of a Black man who was born in the segregated South.

We've come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.

I come up in a segregated 1943 atmosphere of segregation.

America was built on segregation. It's gonna stay segregated until everyone's equal, and that ain't gonna happen when it's a capitalistic society.

Every woman has... self doubt.

One of the reasons that I needed to become an actor was that I didn't have any self-confidence.

When I'm away from sport and not doing something I have much self-belief in, I can lack self-confidence at times.

When we were younger we were so confident. Then when we got flung into the industry we began to get self-conscious and started criticising ourselves because other people were doing it.

The script for 'The Art of Self-Defense,' to be fair, I knew going into it that it was going to be a hard movie to get made.