If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Be sincere; talk only about your genuine experience; do not distort, exaggerate or falsify that experience.

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

I love you and, because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant —
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surpriseAs Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind —

Hannetjie is just a child and stupidly truthful.

[to Chon Lin] You have a GREAT body. There! I said it! It's out in the open!

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Hopefully, these characters bring us closer to a sense of self: honest and honored. Icons: Toussaint Louverture to José Martí to lesser known heroes, Atahualpa and Denmark Vesey. We lace our visions with Celia Cruz and Aretha Franklin.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable.
There is a preference for candy bars.

Children's lies are signs of great talent.

Universal truth is not measured in mass appeal, this is the last time I kneel and pray to the sky, cause almost everything I was ever told was a lie

You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else.

When it's over I just want to be able to look in the mirror and say, 'Well, you were a half-decent player.

James Baldwin was born for truth. It called upon him to tell it on the mountains, to preach it in Harlem, to sing it on the Left Bank in Paris. His honesty and courage would lead him to see truth and to write truth in poetry, drama, fiction, and essay. He was a giant.

If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.