Quotes About Authenticity

You're as sick as your secrets, and my whole life was a secret, so it's just... it's been really healing, and I've found a lot of inner peace by just owning everything and moving forward from there.

I am Shangela, I'm a working girl professional who owns her truth.

I want truth. I'm crying out to hear it. I need it like oxygen.

In life, you have to take the pace that love goes. You don't force it. You just don't force love, you don't force falling in love, you don't force being in love - you just become. I don't know how to say that in English, but you just feel it.

I would love to be able to do the pace that people used to do decades ago, where you'd make a record a year, or something was wrong with you.

What did winning a Grammy do for me? It made me want to get rid of my Grammy, pack it away, and never see it again. It made me not want to speak to anyone who wanted to speak about my Grammy.

It's always been a conscious thing for us to do whatever will separate us from the pack and make us happy musically.

Cinema is not about wearing 'bikni' and showing 'six packs'... All these are secondary.

I think diverse stories are just stories. I don't think 'diverse' is an add-on package. Things that are not diverse are weird because that's not accurate.

There's a lot of writing in television that can sound like it's taken out of a package, and the way to get around that is to not allow yourself to deliver it that way.

There's no act. That's the whole Charles Barkley package. That's why people like him.

Some people are really good at packaging themselves, but that's not really me.

Now on 'Bachelor Pad' it is true colors - no best foot forward anymore, everybody is really themselves.

It's very hard for me to be myself when I'm not in shoulder pads.

When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the page, as if I'm telling it to one person only, my best friend.

I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is.

In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.

It is scary to write - period - for me, but once you get past the idea that it's scary to write, I still can only be who I am. As a writer, my job, to me, is to expose myself - to really sort of dig in and find out who I am and then put it on the page.

I never really endeavored to hide anything. But there were times I chose not to relegate my history to the back page of a magazine, which to me is sort of akin to putting your biography on a bathroom wall.

The hardest part is telling one's story. Once the story is on the page, the rest will come.

My whole thing is, I've got to be as good, as courageous as what's written on the page.

My work should speak, not being spotted on Page 3.

I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.

People think pageant girls are snotty, cutthroat, self-absorbed. Everybody that I meet in the industry is so kind, giving, and they are some of the most amazing women.