Quotes About Authenticity

But Archie did not pluck Clara Bowden from a vacuum. And it's about time people told the truth about beautiful women. They do not shimmer down staircases. They do not descend, as was once supposed, from on high, attached to nothing other than wings. Clara was from somewhere. She had roots.

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They always say that people should give relationships time to develop. That sooner or later a person's real traits will be exposed. I should have listened to they.

The most sincere feelings are the ones hardest to be expressed by words." —Unknown

Love is not about how much you say 'I love you,' but about how much you prove that it's true." —Unknown

the false courage of association with a crowd.

A bird is a bird Slavery means slavery A knife is a knife Death remains death

truth is a letter from courage!

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk

Janie full of that oldest human longing - self-revelation.

She went on in her overalls. She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.

Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! They don't know if life is a mess of corn-meal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt!

Hurston did make significant parts of herself up, like a masquerader putting on a disguise for the ball, like a character in her fictions.

pay no attention to what I say about love, for as I said before, it may not mean a thing. It is my own bathtub singing. Just because my mouth opens up like a prayer book, it does not just have to flap like a Bible.

SISTER TAYLOR Brother Mayor, I ain't one of these folks dat bite my tongue and bust my gall—Whuts inside got to come out!

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place

She had found a jewel down inside herself and she had wanted to walk where people could see her and gleam it around.

Big talk ain't changin' whut you doin'. You can't clean yo' self wid yo' tongue lak uh cat.

She had an inside and outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'

I try to sort of make myself emotional in the moment when I'm writing, and that always translates better. When I'm writing, I can't do abstract.

I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.

I just can't imagine having to do an accent all the time - like, in your whole career.

In 'Shirin Farhad' I play the character of a Parsi woman. Though I was born a Parsi, in a Parsi family, I don't have the right accent.