Quotes About Struggle

Because of how I walk and I talk, I get abuse on a daily basis.

I always feel fear, even just in daily life I feel fear.

I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started.

To say that losing your pancreas is a sad thing is not an overstatement. They had to take my pancreas away, my duodenum, and it's damaged for ever.

I'm a damaged person, but I have hope and a will to not give up.

I'm drawn to damaged, complicated characters.

In Hollywood, only a female who's massively damaged is interesting.

I don't really know how strong someone is if they're compelled to a life of violence. Is that strong? No. That's damaged.

When you're growing up with a learning disability, it shoots your confidence and belief in what you can accomplish academically; it really damages it.

I think, when I was younger, I'd be crippled sometimes by what others thought or how others would do better. It's been a long journey, and having a lack of confidence is really damaging in this industry.

It's a universal experience to be compulsively doing something that's damaging your life.

There are a lot of things people want to look at, pick apart my game, but if you could put any of them in my position, to do anything to make their dream come true... I'm pretty damn sure they'd do it, too.

You try to be the best you can and sometimes it ain't damn good enough.

There is a battle between me and Lin Dan and Lee Chong Wei. We always do our best.

I'd love to fight Dan Henderson.

I can't dance and I can't sing too well.

I was bullied about everything, from the way I looked to the fact that my father had been a dancer.

I am not a natural dancer.

No one can hand you anything as a dancer. You have to earn it.

In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever.

The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.

I spent my life navigating systems built upon me - a black child in America - not making it out.

What is it going to take to dismantle the systems that keep me from being able to live well and that keep me and so many other people from being able to access the things that we need and deserve?

When men's lives become extremely hard, women learn how to deal with them and assist them but also develop quiet systems of coping and managing.