“Every gunshot in the hood is another dream interrupted, another future uncertain.”
"A loyal brother is a source of strength and inspiration."
- Kendrick Lamar
Love
"In the hood, transformation isn’t an option, it’s a necessity."
- Kendrick Lamar
Transformation
"In the streets, the biggest battle is against yourself."
- Kendrick Lamar
Self-awareness
"I always thought it was me against the world, and then one day I realized it’s just me against me."
- Kendrick Lamar
Self-awareness
"Nothing really changes until I change myself."
- Kendrick Lamar
Personal Growth
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity