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I wrote 'Channel Orange' in two weeks. The end product wasn't always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened.
His dreams had always been Houdiniesque: they were the dreams of a pupa struggling in its blind cocoon, mad for a taste of light and air.
Our plan is to struggle against terrorism and have security for the country and help draft a democratic constitution as soon as possible.
I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.
In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march.
When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.
You should never look at somebody and say, 'I wish I had their life,' because you never really know what struggles they're going through.
Today, people struggle to find what's real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope.
Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
During the 19th-century struggle for womens rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.
Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity than women are.
You win by struggle, and that requires understanding and serious analysis of the options and the circumstances, and then you can do a lot.
My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.
Filipinos don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice.
What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?
It is time for the next generations to continue our struggle against social injustice and for the rights of humanity. It is in your hands.
Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.
By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.
None of Ho Chi Minh's colleagues was as dedicated to the use of political struggle, psychological warfare, and diplomatic means as he was.
Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.
The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph.
My veins do not end in me but in the unanimous blood of those who struggle for life, love, things, landscape and bread, the poetry of all.
We come from people who brought us up to believe that life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.
Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden.
It is only after years of struggle and deprivation that the young artist should touch color - and then only in the company of his betters.
Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing.
Sometimes you feel in control, and it's great, but sometimes you just don't feel in control and you really have to struggle to get laughs.
Your struggle is your strength. If you can resist becoming negative, bitter or hopeless, in time, your struggles will give you everything.
Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child a bad kid.
A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's best rewards and life's best defences.
What I find them struggling most isn't with one of the twelve [things from daily list]; I find them struggling with what decisions to make.
Sculpture may be almost anything: a monument, a statue, an old coin, a bas-relief, a portrait bust, a lifelong struggle against heavy odds.
Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful.
Everyone's struggle is different. Just because I wasn't struggling on the streets, it doesn't mean I don't know what it's like to struggle.
I do feel pressure to look good. But that's just not going to happen, because I have a double chin, and I can't pose. It's such a struggle.
Every year is filled with good times and fights and struggles and misunderstandings. All of it adds up to being in a band over a long time.
Is it not in the struggle to obtain knowledge that happiness exists? I am very ignorant, consequently the conditions of happiness are mine.
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle, and discrimination simply because of sex is enraging.
All of the searching, all of the struggling, all of the efforting to find your true self is naturally revealed in open, relaxed simplicity.
Stop trying, stop struggling; begin to be calm, to trust in the higher laws of life, even though you do not see them; they are still there.
Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle.
The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost.
During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.
For whatever reason, I don't know why, but Cambodians learned something in their suffering and their struggle that we have lost touch with.
I want to be on stage and perform and win Grammys and help out my family in Bulgaria, because they are struggling, and my mom and dad, too.
We need to see the FLSA and the minimum wage as part of a larger struggle to cut poverty and to address the challenge of income inequality.
Struggle for freedom. Where people are denied the right of choice, recourse to such struggle is the only means of achieving their liberties.
Simultaneously the Left Opposition in the course of several years carried on a struggle against the Stalinists in favor of collectivization.