Quotes about Resilience

They'd been attacked by lions, stampeded by elephants, flooded out by rains, made war on by "natives." The tales they told were simply incredible. There they sat on a heavily antimacassared horsehair sofa, two prim and proper ladies in ruffles and lace, telling these stupendous stories over tea.

I'm pore, black, I may even be ugly, but dear God, I'm here! I'm here!

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.

it is the sense that something that was alive for a very long time is still alive. Not yet beaten into submission or oblivion by those who kill everything they touch with money.

What I love best bout her is what she been through, I say. When you look in her eyes you know she been where she been, seen what she seen, did what she did. And now she know.

They calls me yellow like yellow be my name, They calls me yellow like yellow be my name, But if yellow is a name Why ain't black the same, Well, if I say Hey black girl Lord, she try to ruin my game.

A burnt finger remember the fire.

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

Evil was defeated because good people rose to the challenge and refused to surrender.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

Certainly there are times in all of our lives when bad things happen, or things don't turn out as we had hoped. But that's when we we must a decision that we're going to be happy inspite of our circumstances.