Strength Quotes

"I am here, and I will stay here."

"I couldn't do it anymore. I couldn't do it as a body."

"The supreme power lies in conscience."

"A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

"Strength lies in acceptance."

"All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my cousins and my uncles."

"Women like us, we endure. It's all we know."

"A woman's tears are often mistaken for weakness when they are really evidence of her strength."

"In despair, we discover strengths we never knew we possessed."

"True strength is not the absence of tears, but the ability to shed them and continue forward."

"I had been a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids."

"I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here."

"I am not her dead body."

"There is no greater power on earth than purity of heart and strength of will."

"I am not a doll, I am not a doll"

"I am still alive, I am still alive"

"The strength of humanity lies in its capacity for forgiveness."

"I will not shed a tear for you."

"I will not apologize for my existence."

"All my life I had to fight."

"What happen to your face? Nothing happen to my face."

"I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and I can't cook, like she say, but I'm here."

"I'm nuts, they tell me. Unstable. Medically diagnosed."

"She was the kind of person to whom things are done, not the kind that does."

"She is a real person. She is real. She is here."

"But I'll tell you something true. Even if I am not, I'm alive."

"I will not let you destroy me."

"She was teaching me the female version of war."

"I'm pore, I'm Black, I may be ugly and I can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here."

"All my life I had to fight."