Quotes About Strength

You need to be strong to survive the labor and to make us greater. We fatten hogs, not because it pleases us but because we need hogs to survive. But we can't have you too clever. We can't have you so fit you outrun us." She

She was surrounded by men and women who'd been born in Africa, or born in chains, who had freed themselves or escaped. Branded, beaten, raped. Now they were here. They were free and black and stewards of their own fates. It made her shiver.

That burden of carrying an apartment on your back; you stagger sometimes but you take the weight, what else can you do?

If two women were a flaw, what was a community?

Be kind to everybody. Make art. Fight the power.

She wanted to tell him so mach, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof is their armies. If they ask you to stand still, you should dance. If they ask you to burn the flag, wave it. If they ask you to murder, re-create.

She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.

Pain is not wat you get, it is wat you give.

There was something of the beautiful failure about her.

Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get.

To summon things into being by the mysterious alchemy of language. Atlantic. Atlas. Aloft. He was holding the image of his own people up: sometimes it was weight enough to stagger under.

He would not become soft. It was exhaustion he wanted—it helped him write. He needed each of his words to appreciate the weight they bore. He felt like he was lifting them and then letting them drop to the end of his fingers

Her smile colud've broen glass.

Every time a branch of mine got to being a decent size, that wind just came along and broke it.

Head held high for the difficult last five minutes!

Being willing to forgive is not the same as being weak. Indeed, it takes a great deal of strength to accept someone else's acknowledgment of their mistakes.

Being willing to forgive is not the same as being weak.

Red-hot anger takes away a lot of the heartache.

Sometimes a man doesn't want to be strong. Sometimes a man just wants to be human.

Psalms 18:30 and Psalms 34:19.

They have no idea the fierceness that lurks within your petite frame.

And I was fairly certain that my strong-enough-for-King-Kong-but-made-for-a-woman deodorant had utterly failed. --Doom with a View

He'd been our center, the glue that held us together and gave us purpose.

To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.