Quotes about Struggle

The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power. The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors and deserves respect if not enthusiastic admiration.

What if?.. What if I am all to see? What if life is only this? And Ignorance is bliss? What if love is only pain? And nothing can be gained by living everyday And there is no better way? What then?

we are emotional, vulnerable and hapless individuals. It is an attack on human potential."12

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

It is not enough to desire to pray; we must resolutely stay with it. We must fight for our prayer lives because they will not develop on their own.

Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.

True faith is forged in the furnace, not the showroom.

The principle cannot be denied: the fiercer the struggle against the injustice you suffer, the blinder you will be to the injustice you inflict. We tend to translate the presumed wrongness of our enemies into an unfaltering conviction of our own rightness.

All sufferers can find comfort in the solidarity of the Crucified; but only those who struggle against evil by following the example of the Crucified will discover him at their side. To claim the comfort of the Crucified while rejecting his way is to advocate not only cheap grace but a deceitful ideology.

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.