Challenges Quotes
It's rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.
When everything in life gets so complicated it only takes a day to change it.
Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.
Trouble just seems to come my way-unbidden, unwelcome, unneeded.
Sometimes if you want to achieve something great, there will be curveballs. You just have to dodge them every once in a while.
I've had some incredibly triumphal things happen in my life.
My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.
Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.
The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
I don't expect politicians to solve anybody's problems. We've got to take the world by the horns and solve our own problems. The world owes us nothing, each and every one of us, the world owes us not one single thing. Politicians or whoever.
Life imposes things on you that you can't control, but you still have the choice of how you're going to live through this.
The truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better.
You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.
Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music.
Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or go insane.
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