Quotes About Perception

I catch myself thinking that I'm not physically visible, that whoever I'm talking to is responding to my personality, not my person.

Nadinola Bleaching Cream: "Have you noticed that the nicest things happen to girls with lighter, lovelier complexions?

White people wanted to be white just as much as we did. They worked just as hard at it. They failed more often. But they could pass, so no one objected.

If we placed too high a value on the looks, manners, and morals called the birthright of the Anglo-Saxon… White people wanted to be white just as much as we did. They worked just as hard at it. They failed just as often. They failed more often. But they could pass, so no one objected.

The fashion and beauty complex has so many ways to enchant and maim.

It's so easy for a child to feel all wrong in the eyes of adults. And when you have no idea that what you were doing is wrong… I hated being caught unawares. It was so dangerous, so shameful not to know what I needed to know.

We sing more colored than the Africans," boasted John Lennon, and few Americans were inclined to dispute him.

Young, good-looking white women were the most desirable creatures in the world. It was hard not to want to imitate them; it was highly toxic too, as we would learn.

I had know it and never known it.

It is only, she thought, that I thought you brought my bear, and life lit up for a moment. And now it is returned to its usual dimness, which truly I had thought was bright enough for me.

Seals do not sit about and tell, the way people do, and their lives are not eventful in the way people's are, lines of story combed again and again, in the hope that they will yield more sense with every stroke.

He arrives carrying a forest, and you said he walks his cat on a leash, and he's the one assessing other people's mental health?

My dad used to say that giving someone a poem is like gifting them a feeling. Everything will change from black and white into color.

Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.

You can tell a lot about someone's personality by how he orders coffee. "Decaf please, skim milk, no sugar." That's the kind of a guy who goes through the car wash wearing a seat belt.

Dating is dumb. Basically you're making false judgments based on false exteriors. Oh, sure my superficial self likes your superficial self, but the real me likes your roommate.

With any group of people in life, sad things happen, and crazy things, and happy things. When you're in the public eye, it's just amplified, that's all.

If you didn't talk, I began to realize, people assumed you couldn't hear.

If someone tells you a lie, they're not telling you the truth, but they are telling you something. It just takes longer to figure out what.

Gezichten kennen vele mimieken, die allemaal wel iets weergeven van wat daarachter leeft, maar het evengoed kunnen vertekenen.

There is no greater fool than he who thinks himself wise; no one wiser than he who suspects he is a fool." Marguerite de Valois

There is no greater fool than he who thinks himself wise; no one wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.