La'Porsha Renae Quotes

I have been drawn to stories that are attempting to turn suffering into beauty.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

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

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

In my stories, I controlled what happened in a way I couldn't in real life. My characters lived through the horror and degradation of the cruelty of others and they not only survived, they thrived. They gave me hope and laughter, and they kept me going in spite of everything else. They were my heroes.

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.

There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.

I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.

A lot of songs are empowering because everybody who has been through a hard time in a relationship or in their lives can relate to it.

Anything that is worth struggling for is worth singing for.

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 always tell my story because I want others who have felt broken to know they can make it.

No matter what hard thing you may go through or what kind of pain you may go through there is still hope.

The pain is necessary. Sometimes pain is the teacher we require, a hidden gift of healing and hope.

A lot of songs are inspiration and help people through pain, grief and loss.

Out of my great sorrows, I make little songs.

There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.

I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

Celebrate your family's bleakest moments and how your relatives overcame them. In doing so, you will encounter darkness, but you'll give your children the confidence that they, too, shall overcome.

There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.

People wrote the most beautiful things during the ugliest times.

Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'