William Nicholson Quotes

Ghettos and barrios and abusive homes and trauma wards may produce scarred souls; they can cripple more human spirits than they strengthen.

I have lived poverty. I didn't choose it. No one would choose humiliation, pain, and rage.

Sometimes you almost have to laugh to keep from crying to deal with the pain associated with the 'hood.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

The stories my pupils told me were astonishing. One told how he had witnessed his cousin being shot in the back five times; another how his parents had died of AIDS. Another said that he'd probably been to more funerals than parties in his young life. For me - someone who had had an idyllic, happy childhood - this was staggering.

I realize I am very privileged. But there's a difference between being spoiled and privileged.

I got hit a lot. I'm glad I lived through it.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

I am a woman like any other and ugly things happen to me like any other women.

It is definitely true that adversity and hardship are not evenly distributed.

There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn't any pain I haven't known.

I've dealt with a lot of physical pain, with a lot of emotional pain; anybody's who's ever been an alcoholic has handled both of those in extreme.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

There's many, many people who have been through a lot worse things than I went through. I lost my dad when I was 14 and to violence.

Everybody faces pain. Everybody has trauma.

Sadness is a privilege. To be mopey about something, that's a privilege. I did not grow up with that.

My mom got shot. My dad got shot. Some of the craziest stuff. All that happened to me.

My relationship was always abusive, so I chose to not socialise much. People who knew me knew that what pain I was going through.

I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth.

I don't care what you do to me, but I don't want you to hurt me. I've had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

Scars crossed her welded wrists.

Self-harm - the world will come at you with knives anyway. You do not need to beat them to it.

Why is life so difficult for some people and not for others? Why do some people have to struggle so much?

I think that no human gets away unscathed in this old life. We've all experienced loss and grief and pain and tragedy.