Quotes About Authenticity

If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.

You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

How do you knowyou're a girl?I'm wearing a frock.And if you take it off?I get cold, so I putit back on.If I was a boy, I don't know what I'd do.

Let go, let go, let go, Just let it go, Let the tears come out, Stop fighting the tears back, Stop wearing different masks, Let yourself be seen, Let yourself be the real you,

I am deep. therefore you can't wade in the kiddie pool and expect to find me." - Alfa"And I've never wanted to drown until now." - JmStorm

it is being honest about my painthat makes me invincible.

Remove the mask. Let me love the darkness you hide underneath.

I have a book of poetry I believe many should read but in each verse you'll discover it wasn't written for greed.

....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.

Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life.

It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.

Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.

If I am a great man, then all great men are frauds.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.

I'm pretty transparent and very honest almost to a fault. I don't hide anything or sugarcoat anything. I don't play politics because that means I'd have to lie. I'm just forthright in my whole being.

Do we dare to be ourselves?' This is the question that counts - and not, 'Must a man be helpless?' ...A man can do something for peace without having to jump into politics.

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up.

There have been times when I've made special arrangements to meet people in music, film, business or politics, and I'll continue to do so if the people are sincere.

I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.

People are getting too far away from the real-world. Politics is just ridiculous, it's totally dysfunctional.

I wouldn't write about sh*t I don't know. You won't hear me write about politics in Africa and stuff, because I don't know enough about it. And I would never rap about something I can't back up.

In today's politics, it would be good to have politicians who are more upfront about what they felt and actually not trying to bend with every breeze. They're infuriating, all of them.