Quotes About Struggle

Activism isn't beautiful and easy, or a bunch of people getting together and picketing; it's a lot more complicated and difficult than that.

As far as how I grew up, and who is in my life, it's still a very complicated thing as far as how I want to get that across.

It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.

I love how complicated we are. We are complicated because of what we've had and lived.

My parents were complicated people. They had a complicated relationship. My home was very, very complicated.

I had a really complicated relationship with acting for a long time.

I've been drawn to sports stories that have an emotional component to it. I'm happy to get a chance to tell a few.

It's hard in America as a writer of color, an actor of color, not to get caught up in race and culture. But you're also supposed to be able to write characters and scenes in a way where it's just a matter of fact, a component.

Some days it's tough, and I don't want to train my mental game, or I don't want to train my components as hard as I used to.

But it can be tough for new composers as directors tend to block you out.

I've never loved composing, because I feel like other people do it better.

I got a job as an assistant film editor, which lasted for a few years, but I found writing incredibly difficult, and I thought, 'How am I going to make a film if I can't write?' I didn't really comprehend that someone else would do that bit.

I think that trans women have endured a lot and they compromise a lot when dealing with cis hetero men.

I had two roles for which I compromised.

What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.

I'm a compulsive overeater. It's something I need help to work on.

I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.

I'm trying to get through life without really knowing about computers, but I don't know if I am going to make it.

I must concentrate all my efforts in the attainment of freedom for my people.

I've got rid of the ADD, but I do find it hard to concentrate sometimes.

I have trouble with any kind of focus or concentrating, or getting anything done at all, really.

It really broke my heart when music took a back seat when I was concentrating more on films. It was like choosing between two children.

My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.

My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.