authenticity Quotes

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation - or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays - is like a blind man's dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, Something is out of tune.

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.