"Any racism or barriers that may be put up, you get a tremendous sense of resistance. The more you push me, the greater I am. You can't hold me down. And the church helped me do that. My family helped that. The whole issue of struggle is critical in my life. Resistance, finding ways to resist. That does not mean you do somebody in to get it. No, it means finding ways to be human in what you do, but making sure that you get it done."

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Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com

Cecil Williams

#Struggle Quotes #Mean Quotes #Racism Quotes

“Love isn't a burst o' trumpets and a flock o' doves descendin' out o' the heavens to roost on yer heads. Tis sharin' a cup o' tea by the hearth on a cold winter's night. 'Tis the look in yer husband's eyes when ye lay yer first child in his arms. Tis the ache in yer heart when ye watch the light in his eyes dim fer the last time, and know a part o' ye has gone out o' this world with him...”

Source : Teresa Medeiros (2011). “Charming the Prince”, p.311, Bantam
“Shrimp are the insects of the ocean. They're bottom feeders. So they're delicious, but they're the bugs of the sea.”

Source : "Baron Vaughn on getting stabbed and becoming Tom Servo". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. February 19, 2016.
“Speed is absolutely key to creativity. The more time it takes to create something, the less likely you are to create something.”
“But he had been in love once, that he knew. Once and only once, and a long time ago. And it had changed him forever. Perfect love did that to a person and this had been perfect.”
“The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.”

Source : Joyce Cary (1961). “Art and reality: ways of the creative process”
“Abraham Lincoln, who said, A house divided... is a condominium. Never got a dinner!”
“There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.”
“The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling.”

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