Hopsin Quotes

I don't know if we ever fully get over the pain of watching a child trying to find their way through a world that too often doesn't understand.

I couldn't relate to kid stuff. 'Jimmy doesn't like me!' Who cares? I was worried we didn't have gas money or food. Those were my concerns.

Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it.

I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

When I think about my teenage years, when my parents broke up, and feeling alone and being out of control and having to survive... And then other times when you've had to find your own way... that's always been a dominant theme in what I've done.

I believe resilience is the most useful human quality, and I've sought to cultivate it, but in 2019 I felt my resolve begin to weaken at times as it has never done before.

If you're out there and things are going badly, are you going to cry or break down?

I was 25 when my first husband walked out of the house and left me with a 10-month-old. And a house payment and a car payment. But suffice it to say I have a lot of love in my life.

I was bullied at school, and I let that get hold of me and withdrew into myself - I regret letting that happen.

When our TV screens are filled with heartbreaking images of suffering, we have to dig deep inside ourselves in order to keep going.

It's the all-American girl gone bad. Initially, the name callings from 6- and 7-year-olds was tough. My heart was in my stomach. But it is more fun to play someone that you are not.

My favorite stories are about kids who refuse to give up; their homes and schools may have been destroyed; they've probably had to rely on themselves more than a lot of adults do, and they've resisted the many bad alternatives that city life offers to poor teens.

I reached rock bottom halfway through college. And it was - because of all the pressure that I think we're talking about right now - the pressure to learn how to budget, the pressure to really abandon everything that you ever learned. You don't have a comfort zone anymore. You don't have your neighborhood. You don't have your family with you.

We're all born into this world. Some are placed gently, others thrust into it, and still others abandoned.

The only thing I know how to do is survive.

I sacrificed a lot of things growing up.

It's been my experience with damaged people: they don't wake up every day and wallow in the bad things that have happened to them.

Some people don't necessarily have family helping them or anyone, even friends, that care enough to help.

My story is just my story, and it's not nearly as traumatic as some.

I'm an only child raised by a single mom. She's always been supportive of what I wanted to do.

You're going to have highs and lows, but it's how you get through the lows.

My family are all mad. But I got a lot of strength from them.

I've had enough rejection for multiple lifetimes.

For me, I had a close family. There were others like me who were going through a lot of rough times, so we always came together. It was understood that we would overcome hate, as long as you surround yourself with love and what's real.