Quotes About Reality

She ain't a fact and neither do she make a good story when you tell about her.

Tain't no trouble tuh say whut's already so.

The myths she describes so accurately are in fact "alternative modes for perceiving reality," and never just condescending depictions of the quaint.

One white reviewer in 1937 [said he] had difficulty believing that such a town as Eatonville, inhabited and governed entirely by negroes, could be real.

As author, she functions as "a midwife participating in the birth of a body of folklore,…the first wondering contacts with natural law." The myths she describes so accurately are in fact "alternative modes for perceiving reality," and never just condescending depictions of the quaint.

I dreamt of traversing the globe in fancy boots, only to discover I was a mouse on a treadmill.

Many a man thinks he is making something when he's only changing things around.

But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over. In a way she turned her back upon the image

Maybe nothin' ain't real sho' nuff. Maybe 'taint no world. No elements, no nothin'. Maybe wese jus' somewhere in God's mind. But when he wiggled his tired toes the world thudded and throbbed before him.

Living is abnormal.

Before it happened to me, I'd look at other people who had become really successful and think, 'What a dream. That must be absolutely everything they ever wanted.' When it does happen to you, you realize yes, it's incredible. But it also comes with a bit of a weird aftertaste.

War is an abstraction.

I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.

I really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to tether the absurdity to reality.

It's hard to accept the truth, especially about yourself.

I tend to view my life as an accident, almost as a dream.

At heart, I'm not an actor, I'm an accident.

TV is not accurate.

It's so nice to see that one's opinion of humanity is accurately gauged.

I'm not really an actress.

I've read only fiction, so I don't know anything actual.

I don't even watch my own actual self on TV.

It's funny - it's called 'The Voice,' but I sure as hell didn't have the best voice on the show. I'll admit it.

Everyone thinks I am rich, I have a plush office, I make advertisements and travel - but only I know the kinds of problems I face.