Strength Through Adversity

If it Rains on Your Parade Dance in it

In the face of adversity keep striving and trying to succeed in life, the storm has passed, you have waded through and have kept afloat, swiftly and safely to shore, it may have dawned on you how amazingly well everything in your life has transformed from major hurdles to being propelled to the centre of the winner’s table, let’s be thankful that we were strong through adversity.  

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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race  – scientifically, anthropologically. – Toni Morrison 

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It’s a cruel cruel world that we live in where George Floyd’s death reminds us how much hatred exists, and the racism that we have to tolerate, it has ruined lives like George Floyd and his loved ones, it has a universal effect which has been highlighted and demonstrated through Black Lives Matter protests, when in our usual lives at times we have had no choice but to remain silent. I have learned that racist people enjoy superiority and holding power and control over black people, just to prove that they hold the cards or dominance, and to justify their their actions, lies and fabrication as we are not viewed as human beings. We have to be extremely strong-willed and very forgiving to not focus on negative issues, and instead keep motivated and enjoying a happy life with on going success that we deserve.

Maya Angelou’s Poem is Still Very Relevant in Times Like These

Still I Rise – Maya Angelou

You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may trod me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?

Why are you beset with gloom?’

Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room

Just like moons and like suns,

With the certainty of tides,

Just like hopes springing high,

Still I’ll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?

Bowed head and lowered eyes?

Shoulders falling down like teardrops,

Weakened by my soulful cries?

Does my haughtiness offend you?

Don’t you take it awful hard

Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mine

Diggin’ in my own backyard

.You may shoot me with your words,

You may cut me with your eyes,

You may kill me with your hatefulness,

But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?

Does it come as a surprise

That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain I rise

I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide

Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise

Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clearI rise

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,

I am the dream and the hope of the slave.

I rise

I rise

I rise

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You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage, instead it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.- Michelle Obama

I pray for all the silent victims who couldn’t and still don’t have a voice to stand up to authorities against injustice and systematic racism.- Kay Angela (K.A Luxe Media)

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible. – Maya Angelou 

To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try. – Rosa Parks 

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. – James Baldwin

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. – Albert Schweitzer

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile and I will show you someone who has overcome adversity. – Lou Holtz

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Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has. – Billy Graham

As long as your conscience is clear and you’ve always done the right thing in life, your triumph over adversity will feel like a victory, but prayers and forgiveness is key, because God will see you right. – Kay Angela (K.A Luxe Media

Always be thankful, grateful, appreciative and kind-hearted. – Kay Angela (K.A Luxe Media) 

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