Dustin Lance Black Quotes

Since I was a little girl, I have witnessed the strength and courage that energized my mother, who left every sorrow and pain in the past, who would work unyieldingly to obtain her goals, who was the great warrior from whom I learned all the values that are today fundamental pillars of my every day.

My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.

I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.

By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds.

I see courage everywhere I go in Africa.

John, you have broken many times, physically and otherwise, and you have always grown stronger, but what you don't really understand in my humble opinion is how much courage you give the rest of us looking at you.

I try to find scripts of stories that kinda celebrate the human condition... let's talk about the tough world out there and the human spirit overcoming adversity.

I'm a survivor. I'm a messenger.

My mom was essentially a single mother raising three boys. If anyone could have had any reason to give up, it was her. But she didn't, and neither did we.

He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.

Mum was the strongest person I knew.

The pain that all people experience in life and the light that helps them champion through it all - it's their lives and their stories and their love and will to keep living that moves me to write.

I am in love with stories of underdogs.

'Life Changes' is a song that we feel really connects to the spirit of our band and our fans. It's got that positive vibe we always want to put out there, and the message - no matter how many times you get knocked down, always get back up - will forever be part of the GC story.

People overcoming the odds is actually a really important part of humanity, and I don't think we kind of get to celebrate that as much as we should.

A few weeks after my mom passed in November of 2013, I came back from an injury and entered the Egg Bowl in the second half against Ole Miss. I'll never forget the feeling when I walked back out on the field. As I walked into the Egg Bowl, the crowd stood up and clapped like they were enveloping me in a giant hug.

I love stories about underdogs.

I just like to write stories about people who survive even very difficult, impossible things.

I had to overcome a lot of things, but with that, I've inspired a lot of people.

My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a real survivor, so that's my stock. That's how I want my kids to be too.

It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.