Charlamagne tha God Quotes

In this life, you have to be your own hero.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

Why strive to be 'elite'? Because it infuses your life with purpose and meaning that does not depend on anyone or anything that can ever be taken away from you.

I don't believe in being a victim. I think with information and motivation, you can do anything.

Nobody is going to love and honor your dreams like yourself. It's really not looking for someone to be your superhero but for us to save ourselves and to really understand that. I've been at the lowest of lowest of my life, and it took that for me to realize that I want to do better and to be better.

I'm not a victim, and I don't need to behave like one.

What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. Your answers lie inside of you.

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

Don't worry. Don't apologize. Don't cower behind the defeated security of there is no 'room for someone like me'. There isn't room for any one of us. It's up to you to make a place for yourself in the world. So get to work.

You have to make your own family, your own life.

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

When Marcus Garvey spoke about self-reliance, he wasn't only talking about people of colour. It's like self-reliance in general, for anyone. Just keep moving and moving within the right direction, and everything will be all right.

Everybody is not a victim.

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

We can seize this time and do it our way and in the process be proud of ourselves and prosper as well.

I wasn't handed college or graduate school or anything else on a silver platter. I had to work very hard, but I did it because I wanted to. That's the real key to happiness. I think unhappy people are those who feel that circumstances are forcing them into a pattern. Happy people are not slaves to the system.

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.

Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

Even if it's not what you planned, you can make a life for yourself on your own and be happy.

I've taken my destiny into my own hands and I'm in a happy place.

There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.