Quotes About Vulnerability

I looked at myself and realized I had a lot of boundaries up about what I would talk about, what was private for me and what wasn't. I decided to just get rid of them. It was quite liberating.

Sometimes I just want to sit in my boxer shorts and cry. That's what being a human is.

It used to be that the black comic figure had to have this bravado and always showed strength.

To play a bag woman is brave for any woman.

I'd rather not be called 'brave.'

I say, 'Be brave. Do it even if your ankles shake, because they will.'

Everything I write is about big feelings. What I care about is trying to be brave enough to feel how you feel and to be emotionally true.

I'm not a very brave person.

I'm not brave. Far from it.

You want to try to put on a brave face, but I think I'm learning that that's not the case.

I felt brave when I sang and could put into lyrics what I couldn't tell anybody else.

While I've never 'phoned in' a performance, I think I have given some performances where I could have been a bit braver.

It takes bravery to be a young mom, and it does take bravery to let the world watch.

I find talking about my breakdown really easy.

When the body breaks down, it does not all go at once; it goes piece by piece.

Sometimes you get hit on the nose and nothing happens, then you get hit and something breaks.

I will still probably die of aspiration-caused pneumonia. I can go along breathing well, then I might aspirate on something, develop pneumonia and be gone in a week.

I think one thing I've learned is, I can't give my heart again until someone gives it back. Until I see that someone else is willing to take a risk... because love is a risk. You risk the chance of getting hurt and getting your heart broke.

I am a broken person.

My heart has never been broken, I've never broken anyone else's.

I've been dumped hard. My heart has been broken and shattered, and I've also been on the other end of that too.

I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.

I did not realize how broken I was until I saw how broken Mama was.

I bruise like a grape.