Quotes About Validation

Some people never say the words 'I love you', for like a child they're longing to be told.

All the mouths that had probed her mouth, all the hands that had seized her breasts and her belly, all the members that had been thrust into her and so perfectly provided the living proof that she was indeed prostituted, had at the same time provided the proof that she was worthy of being prostituted and had, so to speak, sanctified her.

a man doesn't prove he's a man by getting an erection. He's only a real man if he can pleasure a woman. And if he can pleasure a prostitute, he'll think he's the best lover on the block -Nyah

Live to please the others, and everyone will love you, except yourself.

Everyday was another day spent waiting.  Every night was another night when she might meet someone who would  recognize her true worth.

When you possess great treasures within you, and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.

People always tend to help others just so that they can feel better than what they really are

Si mucha gente piensa que una cosa está bien, es correcta, entonces esa cosa pasa a estar bien y ser correcta.

We stop being the moonlight and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it. Tomorrow, the water will evaporate in the sun. And all because, one day, someone said: 'You are ugly. Or: 'She is pretty.' With those three simple words, they stole away all our self-confidence. And we become ugly and embittered.

People tend to help others just so that they can feel are better than they really are.

If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening.

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others.

When you can prove me wrong, then call me blind.

To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

Anything is art if an artist says it is.

This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.

What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own logic.

Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places.

A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which is why it will always be modern.