Jasmine Cephas Jones Quotes

I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.

When you tell your truth, you are coming from a real place, so you are automatically a leader.

Never be ashamed of what or how you feel... just be honest.

Sometimes, it's hard holding back the truth, how you really feel, and sometimes the best way is let it out and move forward.

I want people to... not be afraid of their truth.

I don't think I push boundaries. I find that other people feel that way. To me, it's just about going up there and speaking the truth, whatever that is.

Using my voice has empowered me to take complete ownership of my life. So, in return for speaking my truth, I listen.

It's ok not to be ok. Just be true to who you are.

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.

I'm just a human being that is in touch with myself. And I'm honest with myself. And I really, at the end of the day, don't care what people say. I never cared about what people say.

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.

We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.

Be humble, be gracious, and make peace with inner fears before stepping out into the limelight and allowing yourself to be subjected to all of humanity.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

I can say whatever it is that I feel.

I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now.

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.

I have faced up to what I am.

What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.

There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.

I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook, and I'm saying everything in there out loud.

You've got to express yourself in life, and it's better out than in. What you reveal, you heal.