India Arie Quotes

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.

I'm a total wreck. Afraid to let anyone near. Afraid they'll see the real me.

I'm a guy so I equate vulnerability with fear. What makes me fearful. I feel vulnerable when I release material, my work, to the world, and I have no control over the outcome. Those are very vulnerable moments. I'm getting married on Friday.

I've always had a problem saying what I feel for fear of having someone dislike me.

I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.

For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.

Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most.

Insecurity has been my lifelong thing.

I always feel terrified whenever I put my work out there to be seen, to be scrutinized. I think it's a very vulnerable thing that we are asked to do.

I feel like I'm being watched. Always. Like, I want to tan topless somewhere, and I know I probably could never do that. Even if I'm upstairs in my bedroom, and the curtains are pulled, I feel like a paparazzo's outside on a boat somewhere, or somebody's peeping.

That was the biggest fear for me - being seen without my straight hair, my makeup or fake tan, being seen without my armour on. That terrified me.

Every time I put myself out there, I get rejected.

I will confess that almost all my inspiration has come from one emotion: fear. And terrible dread of the moment when I will finally be exposed as a fraud.

I spent the first 33 years of my life with secrets, and lots of them. I spent a great deal of energy worrying over what people thought and obscuring the things I was ashamed of... trying to appear what I thought was normal.

We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

Everyone you idolize wakes up scared to be themselves sometimes.

I always get a little bit scared reading reviews.

I find that the vast majority of people who are judging are just fearful or insecure.

We're afraid of letting people see the glory of who we are.

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.

I worry that people will think that I have done what I've done just because I have access and resources. I hope people will know that I'm just as scared and lonely as anyone else!

When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.

I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave.

I am not comfortable telling people I am trying stand-up because to me that implies confidence. I'm - well, I'm not.

Only the insecure strive for security.