Quotes About Strength

You can't take our people from Africa and put us in a diaspora and spread us all over the world. And we survived slavery - and we can't pass a test? ... And you're gonna tell me we can't learn how to write? Have you lost your mind? We are survivors. That's all we do is survive.

In many regards, Me Too is about survivors talking to survivors.

I want survivors to know that healing is possible.

All of the characters I've had the chance to create are survivors. But we live in a world where surviving makes up most of what we do.

Black people are achievers; we're survivors.

I was very surprised to learn how many cancer survivors are out there and how they instantly rallied to my support.

I loved Susan Bloom from the moment I heard about her. I admire her chutzpah.

Sometimes your immune system gets a little heated, and you're more susceptible to getting some illnesses that way.

For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that you're not facing these things on your own.

There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.

Punk may have helped me find my voice and made me realise that I had the right to have one, but it was riot grrrl that helped me sustain that voice and shout a little louder.

The truth sustains me.

A lot of times in America, we work on bully muscles. We want the big muscles and the stuff that looks good. But we don't focus on the little things. But that's the stuff that sustains you and keeps you strong.

What has never changed, what is always present and what is, in the end, what sustains us is that energy that I talk about in 'Like Water for Chocolate...' that loving energy. Without that, I wouldn't have had the strength to keep going and enjoy life.

My faith and my beliefs sustain me through all of the craziness that this life brings.

We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.

I've spent my entire adult life with the United States as a superpower and one that had no compunction about spending what it took to sustain that position. And it didn't have to look over its shoulder because our economy was so strong.

When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women's friendship and how women use friendship to sustain themselves and nurture each other.

How many 54-year-old quadriplegics are putting albums out? You just have to deal with what you got, try to sustain yourself as best you can, and look to the things that you can do.

My parents are a bedrock. And I have three complex, strong, and funny sisters who inspire and sustain me.

Our people's faith is strong and sustains them even in times of challenge.

My hopes are laid up within my own bosom, for he is not alone with whom the Lord is; when he falls, he shall not be dashed to pieces, for the Lord sustains him in his hand.

I've been really, really fortunate to have a mother that has spent many, many long hours on her knees praying for me. And I guarantee you, I would almost bet everything I have that that has saved me more often than not. So it sustains me.

We only won our freedom because of our allies, and we can only sustain it because of them.