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Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.
When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.
Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.
The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.
As we renew and honor our covenants, our burdens can be lightened and we can continually become purified and strengthened.
I actually found it very moving how destructive depression is. I was really saddened by this burden people have to handle.
You are not a burden, an accident, or a mistake. You are meant for amazing things that you can't even imagine for yourself.
What makes loneliness an anguish Is not that I have no one to share my burden, But this: I have only my own burden to bear.
It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden
Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.
Keeping the commandments of God is not a difficult burden when we do it out of love of him who has so graciously blessed us.
Some of the burdens we carry include false weight, perhaps to make up for all the horrible stuff we actually did and forgot.
To live charitably means not looking out for our own interests, but carrying the burdens of the weakest and poorest among us.
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
All I know is that the closer I get to God, the deeper I get into the Bible, and the heavier the burden seems on my shoulders.
What I feel most strongly here being in Congress is kind of the burden - the good burden - of representing all of our military.
No one ever fell under the burden of the day; it is only when the burden of tomorrow is added that the load becomes unbearable.
Dodd-Frank represents the greatest regulatory burden on our economy, more so than all the other Obama-era regulations combined.
We're reaching the point where the Earth will have to end the burden we've placed on her, if we don't lift the burden ourselves.
Voters must feel that that the burden of new housing is being shared equally and not falling disproportionately on any one group.
Frequent elections not only entail more burden on human resources, imposition of model code also impedes the development process.
Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
I have chosen music as a profession for myself. I have never felt any kind of burden or pressure on being a part of this industry.
It's a huge burden to be known as Mr. Rajinikanth's son-in-law. Once I married his daughter Aishwarya in 2004, I lost my identity.
If you become a father, you're not doing things for yourself anymore. You're thinking about someone else. And that is not a burden.
Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.
For too many of our young people, that once-promised American dream has given way to an American debt burden and a bleak job market.
Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
Was this what it meant to love someone? That any burden was a burden shared, that they could give you comfort with a word or a touch?
Small-business people do not want to have more than 50 employees, because that's when all the regulatory burden of Obamacare kicks in.
Difficulty is when you go to a place where the people don't like you, they put a burden on you like what happened to me in Olympiakos.
To many of you, Sprint may seem like a burden for SoftBank. But in my view, Sprint is going to be one of SoftBank's primary cash cows.
Any show that speaks to people of color feels the burden to never mess up, never make its characters look bad - to always get it right.
you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you.
Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.
There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.
You have to learn to fight for things, to bear the burden and have a life which does not in any way correspond to other peoples' lives.
Black artists deserve the opportunity to create work without the burden of alleviating the social ills plaguing many black communities.
The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.
Misogyny - and racism - are 'hidden in plain sight,' and the burden of eliminating them should fall on the institutions, not the victims.
Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.
America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.
We do take seriously our obligation to assess whether our reforms are achieving their desired effects without imposing unnecessary burden.
I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.
Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.
I'm working alongside the White House and other members in the House to lessen the tax burden that currently weighs on so many Oklahomans.
I've always liked artists like Chris Burden, who would take performances, put them in galleries, and then do things that were on the edge.
Lesser-skilled workers suffer the entire burden of lower wages but capture only a portion of the benefits from lower-priced offshore goods.