Realness Best Quotes & Sayings

To this day it cracks me up to think that my debut on national British television as a reporter ends with me turning a trick. — RuPaul

Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to negotiate remarkably well, with grace, humor, and fierce grit. Mock doesn't only redefine what realness means to her, but challenges us to rethink our own perceptions of gender and sexuality, feminism and sisterhood, making this book a transcendent piece of American literature. — Raquel Cepeda

There's a certain level of realness in Philly. You know, just - people are people. You know, it doesn't matter who you are or who you think you are, you're just a person in Philly. — Jill Scott

With that, everything was suddenly thrown into greater relief, a kind of super three-dimensionality that enhanced the presence and realness of everything in my perceptual field, from the small insects close to my face all the way to the galaxy of stars behind the moon. I was looking at everything from the larger perspective of the entire Universe. — James Redfield

Poetry is a way of coming to know the realness of things; fiction is a way of coming to know the world of relationships; nonfiction is a way of coming to know the world of the mind. — Kelly Cherry

He's from a generation that never even expected to get midway up the ladder so when he got there he was too stunned to dare climb higher. That's the problem with midway. Up is everything and down just means all the white people want to party on your street on Sunday night to feel realness. Midway is nowhere. — Marlon James

What Sri Krishna is saying, is that it's a terrible mistake to believe that this life we lead is real. Obviously it's real, but it doesn't last very long in its realness. It's very ephemeral and to mistaken the forms of life, the shapes that life takes, for reality, is not wise. — Frederick Lenz

But I want to feel like life matters. I
had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead. — David Levithan

It's hard to express how profound it is to have your experience broadcast back to you for the first time, how shocking it feels to be acknowledged, as if your own sense of realness had only existed before as a concept. — Carrie Brownstein

Your realness will attract the next generation way more than your relevancy. — Brad Lomenick

There's a place for all types of country music as long as there is honesty and realness and a real human experience for the fans. — Wynonna Judd

Treat others with respect and you will always be wealthy, because your community is your real currency. — Bryant McGill

I always said if I played a drag queen, I'd want to create a template with the realness they talk about in 'Paris Is Burning.' — Billy Porter

I think it need realness, you should speak on thing that you know about, that you being from, that you experienced or that you been around, you know. I think you need a good hook, good beats and good lyrics. — Obie Trice

For a moment, I felt like myself again. Not the new me, not the old me, just the real me. — Leslea Tash

Uniqueness is like a signature, nobody can forge it's exact copy. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Above the keyhole the door has a latch. It is pretending to be an authentic old latch. The door is pretending to be an authentic old door. Maybe everything there is isn't authentic any more. Maybe everything there is is a kind of pretending. — Ali Smith

I'm trying to maintain a level of realness that my fans can appreciate. — Kevin Hart

Defining oneself is a revolutionary act, and, as described in her memoir, Janet Mock fiercely fought to free herself with exquisite bravery and sensitivity. Redefining Realness is full of hope, dreams, and determination. It is a true American girl story. — Michaela Angela Davis

'The Voice' has lots of singers who fit the 'Idol' mold of young, innocent ingenues with psycho stage moms. But it also has long-suffering adult pros, with a whiff of thirtysomething despair in their voices. That adds an edge of realness. — Rob Sheffield

I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it ... I always want to see the third dimension of something ... I want to come alive with the object. — Andrew Wyeth

Sleepovers and dance parties and those talks we would have until three in the morning that would make us feel lousy the next day because we'd slept like hell but also feel good because the talks were like blood transfusions, moments of realness and hope that were pinpricks of light in the dark fabric of small-town life. — Gayle Forman

If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness. — Omari Hardwick

To align oneself with the real while intimating that others are at play, approximate, or in imitation can feel good. But any fixed claim on realness, especially when it is tied to an identity, also has a finger in psychosis. — Maggie Nelson

There are two types of 'busy': 1)
Constantly distracting yourself from what is true. 2) Constantly working to create something real. — Oli Anderson

If you get into a fight and somebody punches you, you get two feelings. One: That really hurts. Two: That relief in the realness of, like, Wow, this is what it is. It's not an intellectual process. — John Darnielle

Ammu's tears made everything that had so far seemed unreal, real. — Arundhati Roy

Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message. — Jerry B. Jenkins

As a fan, I connect with realness. Whether it's strong or vulnerable, if it's real, I can connect with it. — Kelsea Ballerini

I think you can hear the struggles and hear a realness in Theocracy songs, a human element that you don't get from a lot of the typical Christian stuff. — Matt Smith