Fantasia Barrino Quotes

Feminine force is that inner strength, that power, that will to face down any negative circumstances in life and defeat them.

I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.

I come from a very small place in Eastern Europe, so my whole life has kind of been one big fight to live my dream against all odds. But I think it's hard to be a human in general - we all have our own struggles and things to overcome. That's why it's so important to always have compassion.

People do the most remarkable things in the most difficult of circumstances.

Like I tell everyone, I say the bottom line to my life is that I've gone through torments in my life, but it made me stronger. I haven't lost my mind, I haven't become a dope fiend, I'm not a drug pusher, I'm not a stick-up man.

I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up.

It was definitely some tough moments throughout my life, but I kind of stayed focused and came through the other end of the tunnel.

I've gone through many, many things. I tell you something, that if it doesn't kill you, you get stronger.

Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it.

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

I had a calling inside of me. I had a sense that when I was going through experiences like living on the streets, losing my parents to AIDS, just having my whole world turned upside-down, there was this feeling inside of me like I was meant for something greater.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I've picked myself up and gone on.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.

I am determined to go through the horror of this world.

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart.

I was very down as a teenager, very upset because I had gotten hurt in a car accident. But my dad was a source of strength. He used to say, 'It's the character with strength that God gives the most challenges to.' I've thought about that so many times in my life when things didn't go right.

I think life is very, very, very hard, and I've never had anything come super easy to me, no matter what people may think.

Man. I've been through a lot as a kid. But at the same time that upbringing just made me stronger and made me more determined to make it out of where I made it out from and just fight extra hard to not go back.

It doesn't matter whatever has happened in my life; it doesn't matter how many ditches I've had to go through in my life. I keep going forward.

My whole life, people have doubted me. My mom did. People told me in high school I'm too short and not fast enough to play basketball. They didn't know my story. Because if they did, they'd know that anything is possible.