I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer! — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face. — Shusaku Endo Copy Share Image
I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The best word to describe my father? Thoughtful. There was a tender quality to Dad that his sense of fun could sometimes… — Jennifer Grant Copy Share Image
“When your afraid of something you hide behind a mask. It might be to protect yourself, But if you hide long enough… — Kris Harte Copy Share Image
If you see someone on a plane with an eye mask, sleeping, that's probably me, because that's pretty much where I live. — Ronna McDaniel Copy Share Image
The Greek tragic mask is one of my main metaphors for the role of the poet. The eyes of the tragic mask… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Sirius's gaunt face broke out into the first true smile Harry had seen upon it. The difference it made was startling, as… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The masks we wear are simply veils that we have chosen to hide behind in order to get our way, or to… — John Randolph Price Copy Share Image
“Another possibility is that it really is just me lying to myself, but that lie will become truth over time. People all… — wildbow Copy Share Image
Amy was profoundly shocked. "A little over an hour ago, our bus was attacked by three men in ski masks. They definitely… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
“In a corner of my soul there hides a tiny frightened child, who is frightened by a corner where there lingers something… — Shaun Hick Copy Share Image
I was particularly happy to do a potential franchise where I was not putting on a mask or a pair of tights. — Jason Clarke Copy Share Image
You know the oxygen masks on airplanes? I don't think there's really any oxygen. I think they're just to muffle the screams. — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
When I just want to be free, I'll wear the Banderas outfit and the mask and touch myself. On the chest. Only… — Rich Fulcher Copy Share Image
Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures.… — Amilcar Cabral Copy Share Image
“My darkness is neither restrained nor buried. It lives right at the surface. The only thing that hides it is my mask.” — Celia Aaron Copy Share Image
The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting;… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
When the Batman TV series was taken to the silver screen, one of America's favourite sweethearts would don the mask and claws… — Eartha Kitt Copy Share Image
Close your eyes...do you feel that? Deep Down? Behind the Mask, Beyond the Walls, That's Fear; and it's taking from you everything. — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in… — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk. And it masks itself as procrastination. — Lisa Anderson Copy Share Image
When it comes to women, get your life together first. Put on your own oxygen mask first. Figure out who you are.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There a mask on me, I always wear it but when you judge and criticize me, it falls apart and you see… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My safe, safe psychosis is broken. It was hard. It was made of stone. It covered my face like a mask. But… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
The Democrats have concocted this whole phony 'war on women' narrative simply to mask their dreadful record on the economy and jobs. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If there’s one thing my mother taught me, it is how to wear the perfect mask. Never show them what you’re really… — Cat Hellisen Copy Share Image
Islam is an ideology and there's a religious component to it that's radicalized and in some cases it masks itself behind that… — Michael T. Flynn Copy Share Image
It was sadness, lostness, and the worst thing about it was the way it seemed like a default—like it was there all… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I always thought the best kind of sunglasses are the motorcycle helmets with the black plastic masks on them. That way, nobody… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
