Quotes about Struggle

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.

There's not a whole bunch of options in America for a black man. But sports gives you that opportunity... So where would my life be without football? I don't know.

You have trouble breastfeeding, and for some reason, it's supposed to be so organic that you feel like you're doing something incorrect.

I love to give to charity, but I don't want to be charity. This is why I have so much trouble with grace.

I am a caged bird, rattling the bars of my cage, with furious flutterings, break my chains! Free my spirit! Let me fly with the wings you have drawn upon my soul with heaven dipped ink

Justice doesn't always have clean hands, and we all have dark desires clawing at our wills.

I remember I had a low point when I was working on a soap opera, 'General Hospital,' five years ago. It was my first real job, and it was so overwhelming. You would work five days a week and have to learn sometimes up to 30 pages of new dialogue a night, then have one take to shoot it all, the next day.

Just being a normal person and having a social life involves a lot of dishonesty for me.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

Well, when you do something like Rocky which is indefinable somehow, it always becomes difficult to lose that.

You never know what's going on in someone's life. You never know what's really going on behind what they present.

All over the world, there is someone sitting in a cell because he or she is not allowed freedom of expression.