Quotes About Authenticity

I'm probably not going to shed all the pageant girl, because that's who I am. If you don't like it, that's too damn bad.

I think pageant girls just have a way of faking it until you make it, almost.

I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'

Today, I believe everybody's their own brand, and everybody has their own brand and they curate their own brand on their Facebook and Twitter pages.

When I was really young, I used to lie a lot. Now I get paid to do it.

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.

What I feel I am doing now is giving to the people exactly what they paid for but never actually heard before.

Our pain is a part of who we authentically are.

Comparison is painful. Don't be cowed by other people's pretty pictures. When you feel unimpressive, or irrelevant, that has nothing to do with what you're actually capable of.

I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough.

Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you.

Coming out was painful, but life got so much better for me.

We shouldn't force ourselves to do something that really is just painful to us. If there is a discrepancy between what we are doing or putting our bodies through and then what our minds are telling us, you really have to look at yourself, and the most essential part of it is the pleasure aspect.

When you make an album, you have to decide how much you want to give away; you have to decide how much you want to open up. Because the more you open up the more rewarding it can be but the more dangerous it can be. If you really open up and it gets panned it's really painful.

I paint things as they are. I don't comment.

He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.

I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

I am not metrosexual. I am not macho. I am normal. I don't even wear nail paint.

You can put an extra coat of paint on a jalopy, but it's still a jalopy.

It's dangerous that we can all paint a completely false picture of ourselves.

Having a child doesn't make a woman a mother any more than owning a paintbrush makes her Frida Kahlo.

It's not the most relatable thing for working moms to have freshly painted claws all the time.