I’ve done everything. Selling door-to-door fire extinguishers… In bars, I used to repair those machines that have 10 different buttons on them to spray club soda and seltzer.

In life, you always have to keep fighting. It’s not easy.

When you’re struggling hard to manage your own emotions, it becomes unbearable to have to witness other people’s, to have to try and manage theirs too.

The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it’s less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women’s role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.

It’s fun to play somebody who’s kind of struggling.

It’s fun to play somebody who’s kind of struggling.

When I’m struggling, I can still dream about my successes.

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser.

I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.

Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.

I’m not militant about atheism, but I feel like religion has been imposed on me.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

The American Dream is a carrot dangled in front of the working class to keep them striving and struggling.

Turning up my hustle’s how I give myself a raise.

Before rap I had friends, got a deal, I ain’t got shit Just tryna get rich, cause my people kinda struggled. Couple tenure niggas poor, but the hood still love me Lil Durk.

We came from nothing really. One house. Ten people. Even days the lights were off. The worst day was not eating. Surviving off rice and toast.

A quiet conscience makes one strong

Inside every sane person, there’s a madman struggling to get out.

Freedom is a constant struggle

If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.