Quotes About Truth

That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false. They're real story elements that the filmmakers were hoping to introduce to the audience in a darkened movie theater.

So many things go on in life that never find their way into the movies because so much of it is unappealing. But that's what I want to show.

Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

I'm not that cool with people who lie straight to my face multiple times.

I don't know if many people know this about me, but I have multiple sclerosis. So I don't have time for a lot of shades of gray. I don't have time for BS.

When you have a sense of yourself in space, in your movement, in your muscles, you can express yourself through your body, your instrument. You learn so much about who you are and what your truth is.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.

You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.

My generation feels it has been lied to a great deal.

I say what I say because I believe it from the bottom of my soul and I can back it up.

My time in high school and college, more than 30 years ago, has been ridiculously distorted.

The reason I spend so much of my time doing science is that the whole point of science is to help people resolve conflicting claims by saying: 'Show me the data.'

I'm more black than I am white. That's the accurate answer from my truth.

I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that.

Speaking my truth. I think that's the number one thing, man. That's my 2018 mantra. Speak your truth, because you hold all that in, it's going to destroy you.

I'm going to stand in my truth no matter what.

I get flak from everybody, which is how I know I'm living my truth.

'Kaafir' has come along because I have never been more aligned with my truth.

A lot of times, people believe that until you're a certain-list actor, you say yes to everything; you're not allowed to say no. But early on, something went off in me, and if something didn't ring true for a myriad of reasons, I would say no and was fortunate enough to have people around me that were OK with that.

Everything I do, I do it being myself.

I just want to be myself.