Quotes About Struggle

Sometimes you just have to shake the devil off you, whatever that devil is. Even if you don't feel like living for yourself, you have to start living for your child, for your children

There was the stench of kerosene and burning tires wafting through the air. It was only a matter of time before the rubber smell would be replaced with that of flesh.

Freedom is a passing thing, a man said. Someone can always come and snatch it away.

Whenever there is someone in a family who has long been ill, and hopelessly ill," he wrote, "there come painful moments when all timidly, secretly, at the bottom of their hearts long for his death.

I felt broken at the end of the meeting, but a little closer to being free.

His eyes surveyed all the familiar details of his fingers, pausing only for an instant when our pupils met and trying to communicate with the simple flutter of a smile all those things we could not say because there was the cane to curse, the harvest to dread, the future to fear.

The only way to save them is to immediately sever them from the place where they are born. Otherwise they will always spend too much time chasing a shadow they can never reach… San manman, motherless, was the way you described someone who was lost, brutal and cruel. Fantom, ghost, was another. People without mothers, it was believed, were capable of anything.

the police in the city really knew how to hold human beings trapped in cages, even women like Manman who was accused of having wings of flame.

But no one has ever gone from slavery to freedom with the slaveholders cheering them on, nor contributed significantly to the evolution of our species by working a forty-hour week, nor achieved any significant accomplishment by taking refuge in cynicism.

A stock operator has to fight a lot of expensive enemies within himself.

I could not believe in the joyous morning bound. It was disbelief well-founded: thirty-five years between then and now, and while I rise punctually I do so grudgingly; each morning brings its own renewal of the battle....

If such a state is to be established, it can only be established over our dead bodies.

The problem will be solved only in blood and fire. The Jews will soon be driven out.

Very few worthwhile things are not difficult, in some fashion

Few of us get the things we deserve,' Ndege said, 'but we make the best of what we're given.

I thought we were losing the habit of wars," Eunice said glumly, stooping to adjust one of the irrigation lines running into her plant beds. "We are, slowly." Chiku took a seat. "But it's still in our blood, like some fucking horrible disease we're still carrying around with us.

we live to fight another day

I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.