Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

Greeks have always been very confident, very strong people. That is - that is our real, I guess, benefit, is that we are independent thinkers. We will always get up on our feet. We - we sometimes act the best when we are downtrodden.

I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect.

If I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. You won't hear me surrender, you won't hear me confess cause you've left me with nothing but I have worked with less.

I have my own strength.

I'm just totally into being strong. There's something about wanting to get a jar or whatever out of a high cupboard, or moving a sofa over because my dog's bone rolled under it, and not having to call anyone for help. There's comfort in that.

I like strength. I depend on my own.

Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.

I'm a very strong woman.

I never feel there's anything I can't do.

I have based my life on being strong enough to do anything.

The song 'Wolf Eyes,' I wrote because I felt like I was such a kitten. I want to be more of a wolf. I want to be stronger and more independent. I sort of wrote the song for that.

We can and we will solve our problems for ourselves. We know how. We can, and we will.

I thought I was weak and couldn't be on my own. But actually, I can do it; I just need to be a bit braver.

Can't nobody handle me.

I did a lot of tae kwon do and branched off into other stuff later on, but tae kwon do is great. It was my equalizer. That was how I was able to survive in the land of the giants. Thank God for that.

Whatever I do I will do on my own strength.

I'm a can-do girl.

It's a tough world out there, and women can't afford to be weenies.

[You] have what it takes to be a victorious, independent, fearless woman.

Freedom is the slogan of the strong, who feel self confident, self sufficient to do it alone.

I've had my fair share of being dismissed. But I'm only about to turn 30. And when I finish running, I'm going to be a dangerous woman.

But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

No one else has ever opened doors for me. I opened them myself.

I always knew that I would have to make it on my own somehow.

What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.