Lurlene McDaniel Quotes

People tell me their own stories about how they have come through great difficulty.

The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves. All of these people who are heroes, these guys who have been lily white and clean all their lives, if they went through what I went through, they would commit suicide. They don't have the heart that I have. I've lived places they can't defecate in.

I think part of a hero construct is overcoming loss, or being abandoned, or having to make your own way in the world.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I really believe that.

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed.

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

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

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.

I'm always looking for a story of survival.

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

Precious, she gets hit by life so many different ways and so many times, but she doesn't yield to it. She continues to get up and she continues to struggle for a better life.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

The only thing that I know is that, growing up, I came across stumbling blocks, and I always said to myself, 'If I ever get into a position to do something about this, I would like to, so that somebody does not deal with what I went through.'

You don't have to be a scared person. I've had so many tragedies. I've managed to withstand things that you may think you cannot tolerate. But I have the strength.

'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger?' In my case, I suppose it's not just a cliche.

It doesn't matter what background you come from; it doesn't matter what your circumstances are - you can survive.

Everybody's gone through some kind of struggle in their life, and I'd like to be the type of voice who talks about it.

I'm a survivor.

I'm not easily scared; from the age of 8, I learned what it means to have everything you know taken away and what it means to persevere. I approach politics the same way.

So once you hit like that place, where everything is stripped from you, everything is taken from you, you really discover who you really are. I discovered that I'm a real hero, that I can deal with that situation, that I can rise up to the challenge.

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.

No matter where I came from, I'm a fighter.

The stuff I've seen and lived and survived. Gun to my head, cops coming to your house. I had the confidence of telling myself that I'm going to make it. Everything I've been through, I could've had a mental breakdown, but I kept it together. If I didn't have that confidence I wouldn't have made it. That confidence has nothing to do with basketball.

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