Quotes About Struggle

I'm from Colombia, and we've been through a lot of hard situations.

The cost of Colonel Gaddafi's rule on Libyan society is incalculable.

I'll tell you what colonial experience is.

I think the Cold War was worse for Africa than colonialism.

My big entrance into this industry was playing an enslaved person, which is an absolute clich of people of color.

My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.

For any band to make it in America is a colossal challenge and very few do because it takes time and so much money to tour endlessly.

I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste.

I loved playing football. In this particular match the ball happened to hit my right eye, the only one which I could see light and colour with.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

There's this idea if you are a woman of colour, that you must never let them see you break down. That we've got to show ourselves in the best light, always, as the 'Strong Black Women' and bring that 'black girl magic' all the time.

I truly love my hair but my skin colour was something I couldn't get my head around.

I didn't want to be a 16-year-old kid being beaten up by a bunch of people who didn't like me 'cause of the colour of my skin.

Sometimes I felt I was being treated differently to my bandmates because of the colour of my skin.

I think we were trying to get off Combat from the moment we were on Combat.

They send women into combat without being prepared for women in combat. The men resented them being there, and it was just very, very difficult for them, and they had to fight for the respect they were earning. And that's all they want is the respect.

Being in combat is not unending high-five moments.

In drama school, I learned I wasn't as good as I thought I was. But I loved stage combat, and I knew that would pay the bills.

Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career.

My 15 years of freedom have been harder than all of my death row years combined.

No sport is easy, if you spend time away it will be difficult to make a comeback.

It's not easy being a father, but I've been allowed a comeback.

When I was making a comeback we were talking to Roy Jones but he wasn't having any of it.

There isn't a comedian in the world that hasn't bombed.