Quotes About Authenticity

You can embrace who you really are, and we can be whoever we want to be together." My gut clenches at the reference to the way my

I've never heard anyone come back from downtown Baltimore waxing poetic about the authenticity of poverty.

It's hard to feel like you have to be something you're not.

With my people, what you see is what you get. We prefer blunt talk to diplomacy." My family was much the same way. Phaelan's idea of diplomacy involved firing cannon shot across your bow rather than through your waterline.

That's what siblings are: a reality check. Try to become someone you're not - affect an accent, or start quoting the temperature in Celsius instead of Fahrenheit- and they're the ones who smack you upside the head. Siblings are like potters; they try you by fire, glaze you with taunts, finish you with well-aimed jibes. If you emerge from that kiln without cracking, you can survive the world.

The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.

Oh, child. The best thing is to know. I always tell 'em, best to be who you is. What you is deep down inside. Ain't no other good way of livin'.

Those dreams that find you in the quiet of yourself, those are the truest of all,

When I'm with him, I feel like a completely different person. I like the way this person feels. And then I wonder - is this the person I really am? How can you know for certain what parts of yourself are authentic and what parts you've invented to make life bearable?

best to be who you is. What you is deep down inside. Ain't no other good way of livin'.

The funny thing about having people believe good things about you is that, without even realizing it, you want to make those things true.

We all have scars. It's when you're honest about them that you find the people who will love you in spite of your nicks and dents. Perhaps even because of them. The people who don't. These people aren't the ones for you.

We all have scars. It's when you're honest about them that you find the people who will love you in spite of your nicks and dents. Perhaps even because of them. The people who don't? Those people aren't the ones for you.

things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and that's not the kind of heart I want to have.

It's when you're honest about them that you find the people who will love you in spite of your nicks and dents. Perhaps even because of them. The people who don't? Those people aren't the ones for you.

What should matter is whether or not you can live with who you are.

The best thing is to know. I always tell 'em, best to be who you is. What you is deep down inside. Ain't no other good way of livin'.

If I don't tell anyone, it'll never be true.

Via our FWP leaders, we have been instructed to deliver "no ivory tower writing" but to bring "the streets, the stockyards, and the hiring halls into literature." This admonishment bids us to accurately record our informants and to make them feel that they are critical to our mission.

The best thing is to know. I always tell 'em, best to be who you is. What you is deep down inside.

Life is the messy bits.

Truth is beauty

This is our big chance to see what people think of us. The real us. We have to show em there's nothing to be afraid of. If we don't get over our fears, they never will.

Real life was messier than fiction, and in it you didn't always have time to do or say the right things.