Major Taylor Quotes

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

I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.

I had, probably, a more challenging experience growing up than most middle-class chicks.

Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody.

I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

We grew up in a very strange world, because my mother was up against it all when she had three black children.

Very often as a little girl, then as a young woman, I have suffered my lot of discrimination. I was brought up with brothers; I grew up in a boys' world. You have to elbow your way in. When you come with that sentiment of having been in a minority for a long period of time, then you are much more attentive to minorities.

I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.'

There are millions out there who aren't getting an even break. They're being done down.

I have a strong sympathy for all women who have struggled and suffered.

Life is hard, and children have to be told how hard life can be…So they will be sympathetic to others. So they will understand that some people have it harder than they do and that a trip through this world can be a wildly different experience, depending on what chemicals are raging through one’s mind.

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.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

Sometimes I think the playing field is certainly not even. You know, it's just not.

All of us who covered the Reagans agreed that President Reagan was personable and charming, but I'm not so certain he was nice. It's hard for me to think of anyone as 'nice' when I hear him say 'The homeless are homeless because they want to be homeless.'

If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.

I don't want someone else to go through and live through the life that I have had to live through in terms of the challenges that I face.

There's always difficulties and challenges in every life, I don't care how much money you make, where you live... and that's something this film speaks to.

No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.

But I think what Liam said just kind of hit it spot on, that the people in the capital are brainwashed and such a disconnect with what's actually happening. They don't realize what if it was their kids that were being put into the games? They just don't have the mindset to have that kind of compassion for people.