Quotes About Struggle

The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power. The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors and deserves respect if not enthusiastic admiration.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road.

To fly we have to have resistance.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

Writing love letters was a blasted difficult thing to do, especially with the lady in question commenting on every line.

The kind of trouble that was the downfall of many men.

For just someone that want success without experiencing something similar, 100% of those, are always ignorant and end up in very tight spot. So it is a good idea to work for somebody then you'll learn the basics etc.

All the bad moments were converging, everything at once, like we couldn't hold them off anymore, as though there weren't enough good memories to keep the bad ones from winning.

You laugh as you sing about dying, you drug yourself up, but you can still see clearly, and you die as you break into a fit of laughter, because asi es la vida in this soup of islands stewed in hunger and the desire to be someone else.

We were three women who walked different paths in life and yet all three of us washed up on the same shore. Destiny is such a motherfucker. God must be a real son of a bitch.

My heart Is a ship in the turbulent ocean defying the raging storm that they call love

feministas que se dejen de hablar mierda. Habrá una ley que otra que nos proteja, una puerta que otra que se nos abra. Pero en el día a día, una mujer sigue valiendo lo que siempre ha valido una mujer.

for every one to reach the mountain top of his or her desire its really a hustle and hard work

Ljudi preziru sve one koji ne uspiju, a mrze one koji se uspnu iznad njih; Navikni se na prezir ako želis mir, ili na mržnju ako pristaneš na borbu...

Boj se ovna, boj se govna, a kada ?u živjeti?

Možda bi trebalo da ih mrzim ali ne mogu. Ja nemam dva srca jedno za mržnju drugo za ljubav. Ovo što imam sad zna samo za tugu. Moja molitva i moja pokora moj život i moja smrt sve to pripada Bogu stvoritelju svijeta. Ali moja žalost pripada meni.

Ne treba ?ovjek da se pretvori u svoju suprotnost. Sve što u njemu vrijedi, to je ranjivo. Možda nije lako živjeti na svijetu, ali ako mislimo da nam ovdje nije mjesto, bi?e još gore. A željeti snagu i bezosje?ajnost, zna?i svetiti se sebi zbog razo?arenja. I onda, to nije izlaz, to je dizanje ruku od svega što ?ovjek može da bude. Odricanje svih obzira je prastari strah, davna suština ljudskog bi?a koje želi mo?, jer se boji.

Sve je bilo mogu?e, a ništa se nije ostvarivalo.

Život je širi od svakog propisa. Moral je zamisao, a život je ono što biva. Kako da ga uklopimo u zamisao, a da ga ne oštetimo? Više je štete naneseno životu zbog sprje?avanja grijeha, nego zbog grijeha.

Ljudi su nepravedni, izigravaju naše povjerenje i ostavljaju nas kad nam je teško, potrebni smo im samo neošte?eni i jaki.

Rat je surova ali poštena borba, kao me?u životinjama. Život u miru je surova borba, ali nepoštena, kao me?u ljudima. Razlika je ogromna.

Ne volim tugu, ?ini me zlim, zato se zavaravam bijesom.

Rekao je: Nisu za griješnicima plakali ni nebo ni zemlja. A ja sam mislio: teško ?ovjeku ako su mu mjera nebo i zemlja.