Quotes About Authenticity

It's nice to be able to have a conversation with someone and know there's nothing they can gain from me, nothing I'm looking for from them.

Everybody has many people inside of them. I think we tend to present the one we feel is most appropriate at first in order to gain acceptance or achieve what we want.

I wasn't playing mind games with anybody, I just said what I said. I am responsible for it, but I wish everybody would fall asleep for that one and let me go out there and do my thing.

'Free the Gang,' that's my favorite song because it's so real. All my music is real, it's authentic, but it's something about that song that I love.

I know what a Gang Starr album that's done is supposed to sound like.

Now I will bop my head to gangsta music - I'm not going to lie.

I don't call my music 'gangsta rap.' I call my music reality, something that really happened, something that has really happened, something that will really happen, something that could really happen. It ain't nothing that I'm making up; I think that's why people listen to it.

I'm not a gangsta.

I'm not a gangster, bro.

I used to live in a gap jumper, tracksuit bottoms and a fake flower in my hair. Shocking.

I was never cold-blooded enough to look for a gap in the market. I loved stories and wanted to tell stories that should be told.

I'm a writer. My job is to speak what - that which I think is true. If that bridges the gap, that's good. If it doesn't, that's too bad.

People think that I grew up going to Barneys for my back-to-school clothes. I went to the Gap. We lived in a nice house on a cul-de-sac, but it wasn't a mansion. We didn't have a butler or a maid.

There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What's the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it's exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That's really cool. That's the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.

When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage.

You want to be leaders and you're black and I'm here to tell you how to do it. Disconnect from this social media garbage; disconnect from these celebrity athletes who don't really care nothing about you.

Be able to tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you.

The Rouje woman is free, natural, and likes to be confident and comfortable in her garments.

Just because I'm a successful singer who's loved and has been loved for years doesn't mean I'm sitting behind electric gates in my own fantasy land.

You don't get to choose your voice! I was never like, 'Oh, I'll take the voice that causes dogs to gather outside.'

I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.

I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet.

Sexuality is very fluid, but I never chose to be gay.