Kandi Burruss Quotes

Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.

My life has been an open book, for better or for worse.

I don't blame people or 'pop stars' or whatever for being so quiet, but you can't take it too seriously, especially on social media. It's a very hard thing to be yourself, especially when people are watching, so I don't blame them for being a bit reserved.

My whole act is confession.

I really don't feel that any of the pieces I wrote were confessions; there are no revelations about secrets in my life, and actually I have nothing to confess and I certainly do not ask for redemption and there is no reward for confessing that I expect.

My life is now an open book.

My life is pretty much an open book.

I've never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

Being a swimsuit model that talks so much on Twitter... everyone thinks that I could definitely pull back. You kind of open yourself up to all the criticism. That's definitely a big downside to this whole world. How can you complain about people critiquing your body when you're literally like, 'Look at my body!'

I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I reveal myself. That's the show now.

I mean, my stand-up is very honest and exposing in this way. I probably carry that into everything I do.

You know, I've done so much of my life in front of cameras... I wanted to show a different side of me. And I put it all out there anyway, so why not put my love life out there?

I want people to know I'm a real person, that I don't have someone running my Instagram; I don't have someone prewriting all of my interviews and stuff.

I'm an open book. I share a lot of my life with everybody.

There's nothing anybody who watches my videos doesn't know about me, unless it's something genuinely sacred and private to me.

If I made an album just to sell you a story about how I'm the man, it really doesn't show any human side to me. It's good to talk about what's real and what's relevant.

I never stopped writing about what was actually going on in my life. There's nothing to hide.

We can’t always tell the whole story about ourselves.

If you watch my Instagram and the quotes I wrote, everything is personal and it's all coming from me.

I personally don’t have the ability to lie about my life, for better or for worse.

To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment

I want to know all of you, Kitten. What you show me, and what you try not to.

We write out of our humanity by writing through our direct experience. That which is most personal is most general, which becomes both our insight and protection as a writers. This is our authority as women, as human beings.

Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.

We like other people to show themselves to us as they really are.