Quotes about Struggle

But she keep on. You got to fight. You got to fight. But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

That summer marked the beginning of a realization that I could never live happily in Africa--or anywhere else--until I could live freely in Mississippi.

Deep in my heart I care about God. What he going to think. And come to find out, he don't think. Just sit up there glorying in being deef, I reckon. But it ain't easy, trying to do without God. Even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain.

The brilliance of enslaving the spirit is that it is an invisible prison from which the inmate appears to derive some comfort.

He never ast me nothing bout myself. He clam on top of me and fuck and fuck, even when my head bandaged. Nobody ever love me, I say.

An American, I said, sighing, but understanding my love of my adopted country perhaps for the first time: an American looks like a wounded person whose wound is hidden from others, and sometimes from herself. An American looks like me.

If there is one thing I have learned in my lifetime of struggle, it is this: freedom isn't free.

I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

Maybe you've invested a lot of time, effort, money, emotion, and energy in a relationship; you did your best to make it work out. But for some reason, things got off course. And now you feel as though you have been robbed. When we focus on or disappointments, we stop God from ringing fresh new blessing into our lives.

Sustaining faith is what sets you through those dark nights of the soul when you don't know where to go or what to do, and it seems that you can't last another day…but because of your faith in God, you do.

All the forces of darkness cannot keep you from your destiny.

Rain falls on the just and the unjust." No one is exempt from difficulties."