Quotes About Insecurity

he died because, at the bottom of his heart, he really believed what white people said about him. This is one of the reasons that he became so holy.

It does seem - well, difficult - to be at the mercy of some gross, unshaven stranger before you can begin to be yourself.

When my fingers began, involuntarily, to loose their hold on Hella, I realized that I was dangling from a high place and that I had been clinging to her for my very life. With each moment, as my fingers slipped, I felt the roaring air beneath me and felt everything in me bitterly contracting, crawling furiously upward against that long fall.

in fleeing from his body, I confirmed and perpetuated his body's power over me.

all the fears with which I had grown up, and which were now a part of me and controlled my vision of the world, rose up like a wall between the world and me...

I think it's very important for the male homosexual to recognize that he is a sexual target for other men, and that is why he is despised, and why he is called a faggot. He is called a faggot because other males need him.

white man's unadmitted—and apparently, to him, unspeakable—private fears and longings are projected onto the Negro.

But sometimes he would ask, in the middle of a sentence- concerned, possibly, with Ancient Rome: 'Little-bit- d'you love me?

The white man needs the nigger because he cannot tolerate the nigger in himself.

I supposed he wouldn't start doubting her until he started doubting everything.

I returned here because I was afraid to

Everyone wishes to be loved, but, in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.

Dr. Johnson thought that] Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

Twenty-nine years old and on her third masters degree because she's afraid to go out and meet the world. Sad, isn't it?" Mal sighed. "Tragic.

This is how it has always been with me. Give me something good, I'll destroy it. Love me, I'll destroy you. I have never felt deserving of anything in my life.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.

Why are you scared, John?' 'Because I know I'm not better.' 'Why do you think that?' 'Because I know it in my heart.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

Uncertainty always creates doubt, and doubt creates fear.

Uncertainty's not good for anybody.

Modeling in Europe at the beginning of my career was pretty hard, with the constant traveling and uncertainty as to where I was going to be from one day to the next.

I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.

From an early age I was very, very fascinated by uncertainty.