Bernard Hopkins Quotes

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

The darkest experiences in a human being's life allow that person to either go deeper and stay depressed or get the strength to stand up stronger than ever, and that's my case.

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

I had a lot of downs too, it is no secret.

I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.

Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.

I don't know if I've had my share of drama, but I've definitely had my share of hard times.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

Every step of the way, life was hard. I was supposed to be a statistic.

The one thing that made me somewhat of an animal is I didn't have anything growing up.

I've seen a great deal of hardship in my life.

Music has empowered me through poverty, abuse, and mental-health issues.

I've been fighting for my life before and sleeping in cars and trying to find a place to lay my head. I've had situations where I've had nowhere to go. This is the easy part. I overcame life.

If I can make it through homelessness, I can make it through anything.

I've been sued, harassed, abused, but I've held my own.

Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it?

I consider myself a survivor more than anything else.

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, 'I'm an orphan again today, isn't this terrible? Poor me.'

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.

Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living.

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.

I do a lot of lectures on survival. I always say you can't change what happened, so have a little wallow, feel very sorry for yourself, and then get up and move forward. You can't change what happened.