Thabo Mbeki Quotes

That's the goal, to survive your gift.

The only reason I can hold up my head is because when He set me free He gave me my dignity back.

Palestinian people are in love with life.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

There is one good thing about reaching the bottom. When you get there, there's nothing left to do but fight your way back up or die.

It dawned on me then that you either had to survive apartheid, or you had to perish with it. And I decided to survive.

To a freedom fighter hope is what a lifebelt is to a swimmer - a guarantee that one will keep afloat and free from danger.

It is amazing how, when all possibilities seem to be taken away from you, the minutest opening can become a great freedom.

As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.

Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is

I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up.

I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to me the fact that I'm not living under a bridge as a crazy woman, talking to myself, is amazing.

When our forefathers put down roots in desolate places, the thing that allowed them to survive was that they had a faith to see them through the tough times.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

I have to laugh because despite the destruction, we cannot let 'them' steal our pleasure. That is always the theme of my performances: I'm here to thrive, not just to survive.

The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.

I always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water and food, not knowing when they'll get that. And her feet are slashed up from the dry, hard earth... Even when I'm uncomfortable, sometimes in pain, or just cold... I think, 'Thank God for what I've got.'

When I first came out, I was a film student, and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did.

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

I have survived and possibly I should not hope for more than that.

In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

Homey don't quit. What else are you gonna do? It's like those guys in the cartoon they get up in the morning, check the clock and fight all day and after it's over they check the clock and go home. That's how it goes.

I'm just looking to get through the day.

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.