Quotes About Authenticity

It is a performance of blackness that whites want, not the real life of being black. They still want it, I think.

when I talk to people I really like to talk to them, and not just exchange pleasantries and wonder which of us is going to try to get away first. Most social occasions leave me less than enthralled.

As someone once said, originality is not taking from somebody else. It's when nobody can take it from you and repeat it.

Watch what I do –           that reflects who I am. Don't just listen to what I say, that only reflects who I want to be.

Let me, however, although no verbal critic, protest against the profanation of the word friend. In this my history I must be honest, make a distinction between the oriental diamond and its worthless imitation of paste, and separate the grain from the chaff — gossamer words, that weigh nothing, from substantial realities heavier than gold.

There was only one thing left to do: that authentic-sounding flush with which every junkie leaves a bathroom, hoping to deceive the audience that crowds his imagination.

What is the way out of shame? It is the way of humility, not humiliation. It is the way of being known, not exposed.

What does your worship look like? Anxiety, despair, shopping, primping, acting like someone you aren't, acting stupid when you are smart, or acting like you don't care when you do? Why do you do it? You are hoping that, if you worship it correctly, the idol will give you what you want. But idols are notoriously slow in responding.

You can't have a deeper relationship if you won't allow yourself to be known. All

Posing is death. I think when you make people pose for a photograph, you kill them.

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

only as long as we can laugh at ourselves are we nobody else

Maybe taking ourselves for somebody else means that we cannot bear to see ourselves as we are.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Live to the point of tears.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

A person I knew use to divide human beings into three categories Those who prefer have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.

Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

We were playing this music and we were trying to be the heaviest thing on the face of the planet. We wanted just to piss people off and send everybody home. and that can't be, like, flower metal." - Possessed's Jeff Beccera on coining the term 'death metal

all dark and serious, really. You know, the simplest thing in the world is for white kids that are a little bit troubled to go really pompous on it all—like you get a splinter in your finger and suddenly you have a whole grindcore

People form their real friendships before they're twenty-five,—generally, before they are twenty,—I think. Up to that time we're trustful and hideously disinterested; and after that age we get to liking people for the amount of amusement or profit or inspiration we can drag from them. But, up to then, it's friendship because—well, just because it's friendship. That's the way it was with us, anyhow.