IronE Singleton Quotes

And that's what's beautiful to me, is he did not become a victim of it, and he didn't become a statistic, he just kind of kept on marching through, no matter what people threw at him.

Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore.

I've survived. I've beaten my own bad system, and on some days, on most days, that feels like a miracle.

I think it's imperative of me to advance that theory that you can win your small victories against the dark.

Chronicle Books is a wonderful book company. I love how everything represents who I am. The Diva Rules! is not an autobiography in the sense that I am talking about my life but more about my journey as to where I am now. People told me I would never make it. I was staring in the face of adversity and did it anyway. I chronicle it through the years. It is about finding your strength.

Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

There was no person, whether they thought I was too fat, too black, too country, too ghetto, too New York, too thug or too whatever! Nobody ultimately had the say over whether or not I was going to make it.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

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

From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to ending up at the Inauguration for the first African-American president, I'm speechless right now because I never thought I'd - I never ever - I couldn't even see that far. Even when I ended up in the music business, I couldn't see that.

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one's power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to prove that it could be done. I was a divorced single mother of three at the time and a size 12 - not your typical model artist that labels feel work for the music industry.

I am proof that one person can rise above any challenge, and if I can, then so will others if they are given the chance.

My books always focus on the response of the characters to extreme events. As dark as they get, they are ultimately positive, uplifting books about children who take control of their lives and overcome great adversaries. I think that is why they have been so popular.

The struggle I went through has value.

The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.

'Growing Stronger' emerged from a need to relate my life experiences as well as my constant struggle to prevail each day, and as a reminder to myself of the importance of never giving up.

I became a writer in spite of my environments.

I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.