“His hair has the long jesuschrist look. He is wearing the costume clothes. But most of all, he now has a very tolerant and therefore withering attitude toward all those who are still struggling in the old activist political ways...while he, with the help of psychedelic chemicals, is exploring the infinite regions of human consciousness.” WayHumansLooksLongStillsHelpingPoliticalConsciousnessAttitudeStruggleHairDrugClothesInfiniteRegionsActivistChemicalsExploringCostumesHippiePsychedelicHuman ConsciousnessWithering Author:Tom Wolfe
“I was struggling with drugs, I had a lot on my plate, and you know, I was using unhealthy ways to kind of self-medicate and deal with a lot of heavy duty stuff in my life.” KnowsWayKindSelfStuffDealsStruggleDutyDrugHeavyPlatesUnhealthy Author:Columbus Short
“Not all Americans are living the American dream by a long shot. Many can't even imagine it. There are impoverished Americans, the poor and the homeless, the hungry and the hopeless, many unable to read and write. There are Americans gone astray, the kids dragged down by drugs, the shattered families, the teenage mothers struggling to cope. Then there are Americans uneasy, troubled and bewildered by the dizzying pace of change.” WritingLongDreamKidsMotherPoorStruggleGoneImagineDrugShotsHungryHopelessPaceAmerican DreamHomelessTeenageShatteredUneasyBewilderedLong ShotsPace Of ChangeLiving The American Dream Author:George H. W. Bush
“My greatest struggle is to coexist while watching the people I love choose less than life-supporting paths via drugs, alcohol, or poor lifestyle decisions. There is so much to life; my heart breaks watching someone held captive by addiction.” PeopleHeartDecisionPoorBreakStrugglePathMy HeartDrugAddictionAlcoholLifestyleHeart BreakCaptivesCoexist Author:Mike Love
“I love creating. I am addicted to the drug of creation and creating things. I get a little depressed when I am struggling to find what I know is locked inside. If it's a lyric or something that is challenging me, I can be very depressed, but when it's like heaven opens up and it gives you a song, it's amazing. There's nothing else that I enjoy more probably.” IfsKnowsGivingLittlesI CanSongHeavenEnjoyChallengesStruggleCreationDrugCreatingLockedCreating ThingsVery Depressed Author:Mat Kearney
“When I came out in the public about my struggles with alcohol and drugs, that's probably the most vulnerable I have ever been in my entire life.” StruggleDrugAlcoholVulnerableMy Struggle Author:A. J. McLean
“The wave of punitiveness that washed over the United States with the rise of the drug war and the get tough movement really flooded our schools. Schools, caught up in this maelstrom, began viewing children as criminals or suspects, rather than as young people with an enormous amount of potential struggling in their own ways and their own difficult context to make it and hopefully thrive. We began viewing the youth in schools as potential violators rather than as children needing our guidance.” PeopleWayChildrenWarStatesSchoolYoungDifficultUnitedUnited StatesStruggleMovementYouthAmountDrugToughWaveCaughtCriminalsEnormousHopefullyGuidanceThriveSuspectsCaught UpWar On DrugsMaelstrom Author:Michelle Alexander
“I often think there are three primary responses to suffering - rage, intoxication, or growth. We either want revenge for our pain, or we numb ourselves with the endless array of intoxicants available to us, from drugs to overwork, or we grow in empathy. Emptiness can transform into spaciousness; lack can become an agent of social action. But I think many of us struggle to remain on that third path without backsliding into the other two. I do.” ThinkingWantTwoActionPainSufferingThreeSocialGrowsGrowthStrugglePathDrugEmpathyThirdsResponseAvailableRevengeRageEndlessAgentsPrimariesEmptinessNumbIntoxicationOverworkSocial ActionSpaciousnessBacksliding Author:C.E. Morgan
“I grew up in traditional black patriarchal culture and there is no doubt that I’m going to take a great many unconscious, but present, patriarchal complicities to the grave because it so deeply ensconced in how I look at the world. Therefore, very much like alcoholism, drug addiction, or racism patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.” WorldLooksCultureBlackMorningStruggleDoubtGrewDrugDiseaseGrew UpRacismAddictionGravesTraditionalRecoveryGet UpNo DoubtUnconsciousEvery MorningPatriarchyAlcoholismDrug AddictionComplicityRelapse Book:Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life Source: Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life