All my life I had to fight... But I never thought I'd have to fight in my own house... I loves Harpo, she say. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.
Alice Walker
Related All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my c... ALICE WALKER I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left ... TY COBB I had a dream after the fight. I won the fight. But in my fight record I was losing. Not just me but... VITALI KLITSCHKO But my promoter's done superbly well to get me this fight and I won't let him or my fans down. GRAHAM WALKER It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I... EMILIE AUTUMN This is a fight I have always wanted. I thought Felix Trinidad would be the defining fight of my lif... RICARDO MAYORGA Fight back, Laia. For Darin. For Izzi. For every Scholar this beast has abused. Fight. A scream burs... SABAA TAHIR I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, an... PAIGE VANZANT I wish I could say I see my little brother more. We used to fight all the time but now that I don... ZAC EFRON So I let my shame own me, kill me, wilt me away into a thousand dead flakes, knowing if I kept it al... JESSICA SORENSEN I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that ... O. J. SIMPSON You are going to use this courtroom to kill me? I am going to fight for my life one way or another. ... CHARLES MANSON But I can please God CRAIG GROESCHEL I was not the one she was destined to say yes to. It was someone else, someone human and warm. And I... STEPHENIE MEYER Anywhere I go, no matter where he's at, I never had a chance to beat him before. This is my first ti... GERALD ANDERSON My brother, he says. My brother is dead. "And again he asks me to kill him. One more time befor... DANA REINHARDT [Tyson finally struck back when an older boy tried to steal one of the pigeons he was raising.] I do... MIKE TYSON My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from ... PAUL GIAMATTI I was more than glad to let my fictitious boyfriend go. I gave him a free pass into my private amuse... SUSIE L HILL I was in seventh grade at St. Matthew's. The teachers would tell me, 'God loves you,' an... FREDDIE PRINZE I heard her holler and that's when I knew something had transpired. She might have tried to fight hi... BILL PRICE I love my mother. My mother loves my dad. Those two facts are undeniable. JOHNA PASSARO Aside from my family, I have two great loves in my life: acting and the fight for social justice. ALAN ROSENBERG And tell Rowan,” Aelin said, fighting her own sob, “that I'm sorry I lied. But tell him it was a... SARAH J. MAAS To Harald, may God forgive you and forgive me too but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's b... LUPE VELEZ The game was over because my dad had died and I didn't have to fight him anymore, ... I could go bac... MARK STEVENS I had to fight my own teammates to get them. DWAYNE JONES But she is good, ... It was the first time that I saw her and I just tried to do my job. I had to ru... FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who n... FRANCOIS RABELAIS I never even heard of him or met him in my life. But when I got downstairs, he said, 'I've been wait... HAL TURNER I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him perm... STEVIE NICKS Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thoug... MARK HOPPUS I teased Geoffrey. I told him he had become my id, ... Every antisocial thought I ever had, he was g... DOUG WRIGHT I may not be a politician, but I will fight to the end of my life for what I believe in. BIDZINA IVANISHVILI Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out ... KASPAR HAUSER Riley was quiet for a minute. She gathered her blanket all around her. "Paul always loved you, Alice... ANN BRASHARES I came to love, I came into my own. THEODORE ROETHKE Statement after losing his first fight to Ken Norton, March 31, 1973: I never thought of losing, but... MUHAMMAD ALI I just came to tell him something because I already had the puck in my glove and he slashed me. I ca... DOMINIK HASEK I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wa... JOJO MOYES My wife and I love children. We have five of our own. I would ask that anyone who looks up to me wou... ALBERT PUJOLS Before my uncle passed away, I promised him I would audition for the school play. Alice is fun to pl... KATLYN WATANUKI They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my famil... PAT BURNS I had to fight my whole life to break out. HILARY SWANK My trainer don't tell me nothing between rounds. I don't allow him to. I fight the fight. Al... MUHAMMAD ALI Did she say anything before she died?" he asked. "Yes," the surgeon said. "She said, 'Forgive h... SHERMAN ALEXIE I’ve never pondered my own life until I started watching fictional ones fight for theirs. JENNIFER RENSON Yet I saw crypts when I looked at him, and I heard the beat of kettledrums. I saw torchlit fields wh... ANNE RICE I never thought I had my own style before, until I carved that bird. BRUCE DIVACCARO My body sometimes feels sore, but it works. I don't sleep well some nights, but I do wake up to figh... UNKNOWN I've got you. I swear to God, I've got you," said Noah. "Stay with me, Echo." I wanted to. I wa... KATIE MCGARRY This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this b... JANDY NELSON I love him, but if he doesn't show that he loves me, I will move on with my life without him, even i... VICTORIA ANGULO She glared at him through tear-filled eyes. “You talk of your pain? You cannot even begin to under... CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE I always say God doesn't need me, but I need Him in my life to survive in this world and over te... ALBERT PUJOLS I never wear pants in my life. I never thought I'd say this, but I miss wearing pants. For the f... EMILY PROCTER I like a little fight in my girls." She grinned at him,causing blood to dribble down her chin.<... KADY CROSS I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters... NICOLE LYONS I have had friends who I decided were not good friends, were people who brought more trouble than ha... DAVE EGGERS Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say. LAILA ALI The Lord had a job for me, but I had so much to do,
I said, "You get somebody else--or wait till I... PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR I know the governor loves to dance. I have never seen him clog before, however. BRETT HALL That's how they say it: He loves you in his own way. Well, what about my way? What if I need for him... TAMMARA WEBBER My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay... CARNIE WILSON From My Life's Work by Cardinal Newman God has created me to do Him some definite service... JOHN HENRY NEWMAN But now what? Why, now comes my master, takes me right away from my work, and my friends, and all I ... HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Scott wants to fight his mandatory challenger [Juan] Guzman but I think he should go to super feathe... FRANK MALONEY I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't le... MALCOLM X I never had money; I like nice things, but I don't let that run my life. At the same time, I hav... WALE I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my gra... JOHN NASH I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my gra... JOHN FORBES NASH, JR. Don King is my promoter, and I want to fight for him. I want to fight in the big fights, and hopeful... MARK DE MORI If I must fight, I'll fight; but I prefer not to spit at my enemy beforehand. CHARLES LINDBERGH I'm sure he knows this, but my father passed away this summer and (Davis is) like a father figure to... ROBERT VADEN I was born 20 years after my eldest sister. I was the pampered child. That kind of love gives you an... CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN I couldn't pick up my game when I wanted to. I had a big opportunity to beat him. I had my chances. ... NICOLAS KIEFER My pastor asked me if I ever thought of divorcing him. I told him no, but I thought about shooting h... MARIE FABRICIUS My relationship with my father had been on the proverbial fritz since the time I was fifteen and cal... CHELSEA HANDLER Cyrano: I can see him there---he grins--- He is looking at my nose---that skeleton ---What... EDMOND ROSTAND I trust him with my life. If I had any money, I'd let him carry it for me - put it that way. BOB KELLER I want to compete and want to beat him, but he also helps me out a lot. I play very comfortably when... ANDY BENSON As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life a... GARRET DILLAHUNT I thought I got robbed. I thought I threw more punches than him and landed more. But that's how boxi... CHARLES WILLIAMS I would have never thought that my grandfather's Spanish and my Spanish were so different. I thought... GUADALUPE VALDEZ JR I miss him so much, but it's confusing, because I missed him long before he was dead, and that's the... A.S. KING I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so. W. N. EWER I gave my life for freedom--This I know;
For those who bade me fight had told me so. W.N. EWER I had all the provocation in the world to kill... I had no malice or spleen against him... It was no... WILLIAM KIDD The talent and skill were always there, but I took shortcuts, ... If I made weight, I thought I was ... ANTONIO TARVER I will do my best, and I promise I will give this guy a fight, and I have to win this fight. MANNY PACQUIAO If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ... B. B. KING I told you I didn't want to fight with Charlie." "Nobody said that you had to." I glowered... STEPHENIE MEYER I wish we had the technology to fight God on an equal basis. To beard him in his den. To fight back ... DAN SIMMONS I feel my dad, I still feel his love, and I still love him. I would do anything to have him back, bu... GWYNETH PALTROW My mother used to fight with me. She said, 'If you don't work, how will you eat?' I never refused my... LALITA DABERIA I had an allowance, but I had to do things around the house to earn it. I think I always wanted my o... CHRISTIE HEFNER I was born to be a fighter. But being a fighter does not mean that I have to live in rage. When I fi... CLAUDIA TAN I was winning the fight with one eye. If I was him and I would've seen me, I would've gone for broke... FERNANDO VARGAS I lost someone very close to me and afterward I believed I could have saved him had I been a better ... DAVE EGGERS It was a big loss to me because, for one, I was trying to do something nobody had ever done before. ... XAVIER CARTER
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ALICE WALKER Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere. ALICE WALKER Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about... ALICE WALKER When we have pleaded for understanding, our character has been distorted; when we have asked for sim... ALICE WALKER The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout. ALICE WALKER She standing there looking me straight in the eye. She look tired and her jaws full of air. I s... ALICE WALKER God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more ... ALICE WALKER His little whistle sound like it lost way down a jar, and the jar in the bottom of the creek. P. 64 ALICE WALKER I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you ... ALICE WALKER Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co... ALICE WALKER Like I said...fine with me. ALICE WALKER Who am I to tell her who to love? My job just to love her good and true myself. P. 237 ALICE WALKER Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it. ALICE WALKER The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this... ALICE WALKER Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that tre... ALICE WALKER Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co... ALICE WALKER The more I wonder, the more I love. ALICE WALKER Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He ... ALICE WALKER Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly. ALICE WALKER A grown child is a dangerous thing. ALICE WALKER People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always ... ALICE WALKER All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my c... ALICE WALKER Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co... ALICE WALKER Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved. ALICE WALKER And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some people... ALICE WALKER A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is th... ALICE WALKER Well how you spect to make her mind? Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the up... ALICE WALKER I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions -- those who wantonly dama... ALICE WALKER The longer I am a writer--so long now that my writing finger is periodically numb--the better I unde... ALICE WALKER Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve. ALICE PAUL I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date. ALICE TEMPERLEY The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way. ALICE WATERS When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jit... ALICE OSWALD After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to... ALICE DREGER After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to... ALICE DREGER