2,327 Quotes About Struggle

We bear the same few chromosomes; we are made up of the same chemicals. We are fragile. We break (...) But we are also strong...

Under the roseI whispered her honourand watched her moveparapets in umbra –

A sword forged true in hammer and flameFlies sure and swiftA heart forged in battle and strifeCuts deeper than any blade

During your struggle society is not a bunch of flowers, it is a bunch of cactus.

Strength is like the windnow raging with the fierceness of a hurricanedetermined to overcome any obstacle in its pathnow vanishing into a breath-stealing stillnesswhen life hits too hard and the soul gasps for reliefnow stirring softly to whisper that it's okayto struggle, to fail, to suffer, to restbecause life goes onand strength will eventually rise againto carry us through...just maybe not right now.

The greatest struggle you will overcome is the struggle against yourself.

Most Black lesbians were closeted, correctly recognizing the Black community's lack of interest in our position, as well as the many more immediate threats to our survival as Black people in a racist society. It was hard enough to be Black, to be Black and female, to be Black and female, and gay. To be Black, female, gay, and out of the closet in a white environment, even to the extent of dancing in the Bagatelle, was considered by many Black lesbians to be simply suicidal.

You wonder why you can’t see me,Sense me, feel me…?When you are outpouring your emotion,it is like me trying to climb up a waterfallTo get to you.But if you are calm and have faith in me,I can sail right over to youOn the still waters of your soul.

Struggle is a word that does not live only in the dictionary; itstays with our lives in its various inescapable forms