Truth Quotes

What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.

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"Our stories are our resistance; our lives are our testimony."
Toni Cade Bambara
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"To speak truth is to speak in service of liberation."
Toni Cade Bambara
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"We are here to bear witness and to speak truth."
Toni Cade Bambara
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"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
Alice Walker
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"The world will respond to your authentic self."
Alice Walker
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"Truth-telling requires both honesty and compassion."
Alice Walker
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
Maya Angelou
"Truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."
Maya Angelou
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."
Maya Angelou
"Truth is stranger than fiction."
Carl Sandburg
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"We cannot heal what we do not acknowledge."
Toni Cade Bambara
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"Every story deserves to be told."
Toni Cade Bambara
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"Truth-telling requires courage."
Toni Cade Bambara
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"Most of the changes we think we see in life are due to truths being in and out of favor."
Robert Frost
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"Beware of anyone who says they are talented but cannot prove it."
Robert Frost
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"Truth must be presented with patience and understanding."
Robert Frost
"Quiet as it's kept, there were no harmless colors."
Toni Morrison
"I don't believe any telling of life can be with absolute truth."
Toni Morrison
"Be careful when they tell you anything at all."
Toni Morrison
"There are two things I know for sure."
Toni Morrison
"Tell all the truth but tell it slant."
Toni Morrison
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"To live authentically is to live in constant conversation with your own conscience."
Alice Walker
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"Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question."
Richard Wright
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"The purpose of a writer is to reveal the truth that lies beneath the surface of things."
Richard Wright
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"Truth is stranger and more powerful than any fiction."
Richard Wright
"I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain."
Ralph Ellison
"To be articulate is not to be honest."
Ralph Ellison
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"We are whole people. Not fractured. Not divided into public and private selves."
Toni Cade Bambara
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"Our stories are evidence of our existence."
Toni Cade Bambara
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"Truth is revolutionary because it cannot be purchased or controlled."
Richard Wright