John Boyega Quotes

The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.

We do not have to be victims of circumstance.

From this day on, I refuse to let anyone bring me to a point where I can't take a horrible situation and spin it into something beneficial. I will never let anyone make me feel anything I don't want to feel again or rob me of the passions that make me who I am.

I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.

I hear them saying, "You'll never change things, and no matter what you do it's still the same thing." But it's not the world that I am changing. I do this so this world will know that it will not change me.

I do definitely get boxed into this #BlackGirlMagic social activist category. But it makes me think, "Well, maybe people are able to start thinking about that concept earlier and will hopefully be inspired to delve deeper into it and research it more." I think that's just how the media works. It's just very good at compartmentalizing human beings.

Growing up, I looked to people who had the same issues as me and were still living great lives.

People only look at you and say, 'You are black and you are from the banlieue,' and all the doors are closed. I had the desire to be something else. If I see a door that is a little open, I will find a way to get through.

I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor.

You're made to feel ugly, and I made ugly beautiful. Just by sheer persistence. Nobody has the right to say that I am ugly, and I will not be a professional victim, you know. Sorry!

I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

'That which does not kill me makes me stronger' is not a law of the universe. What it can be, if we so choose, is a resolution.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

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.

One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women. I always write about women who are marginalized, who have no means or resources and somehow manage to get out of those situations with incredible strength - and that is more important than anything.

I'm not gonna apologize for who I am and what I've gone through.

I'm a black lady from the Lower East Side of New York. Not a lot intimidates me.

Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims.

I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.

You cannot change everything you face and you cannot also change anything without facing it.

My only power is my ability to do something with passion and do it well. It's also something someone cannot take way from me, so it's very valuable.

As a child, I sat in the back of the bus. I was told, time and time again, that God's potential didn't exist in people like me. I've spent my life fighting to change that. And, from the first day when I met Hillary Clinton, I've known that she's someone who cares just as much and fights just as hard.

I was a slightly overweight, spiky-fringed, rat's-tailed '80s girl who was just showing up. That's all I've ever really done to get here, just kept showing up. Even when I didn't want to. That's what I do.