Authenticity

“Be the truest form of yourself.”

“I believe in the music. I don't have to beg you.”

“The poet-monks’ poetry differs from literati poetry exactly for its breath of vegetables and bamboo shoots.”

“It's not about delivering certainly bad news, but even just engaging with those anxieties and engaging with them honestly, and just laying them out there, and that can be done in a fun way.”

“I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.”

“It’s me. I don’t know how else to put it!”

“I want to wear me.”

“Nobody is gonna be able to intimidate me into not being Megan Thee Stallion.”

“L’artiste existe en lui-même, et ne prend fond que sur sa sensibilité.”

“I like to be myself; I don't want to perform myself.”

“I’m not going to play the games that they play.”

“A writer is a man marked by fate; he is put into the world to lay bare his own soul before the spiritually hungry.”

“If I had to start over tomorrow, I would still be me and I’d have all the skills that I bring to the table and I’d be pretty good.”

“You just have to know who you are. Don’t be afraid of what other people are going to say. At the end of the day, you are the person that you have to answer to.”

“The Most High Himself revealed to me that I should live according to the form of the Holy Gospel.”

“金玉其外、敗絮其中”

“For a woman to accept their body the way it is is almost impossible.”

“I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.”

“Being a celebrity has taught me to hide but being an actor has opened my soul.”

“Tout flatteur Vit aux dépens de celui qui l’écoute.”