Quotes About Keeping It Real

#1. Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it's just posturing. Somebody who claims to speak for the 'hood don't need no private jet.

Chuck D

#2. While the patriarchal boys in hip-hop crew may talk about keeping it real, there has been no musical culture with black men at the forefront of its creation that has been steeped in the politics of fantasy and denial as the more popular strands of hip-hop.

Bell Hooks

#3. The idea that reason and rationality is somehow separate from and antithetical to ones ' heart' is one of the most absurd theologies I have ever in my life heard."


~R. Alan Woods ("Just Keeping It Real", Copyright 2012)

R. Alan Woods

#4. People say keeping it real is a hard thing to do. Keeping it real is easy. Being fake and being soft is hard to do.

Trick Daddy

#5. In acting class, you talked always about keeping it real and don't act ... connect with the people and connect with the partner that you're acting with. The same is also true in politics.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#6. Keeping it real" isn't just a matter of facing up to harsh facts. It also includes opening up to the plethora of possibilities that offer us ways of impacting the world in spite of adversity.

T.K. Coleman

#7. A lot of people play single to work some angle. I'm always about keeping it real. If that's how I'm living, that's how I'm living.

Ice-T

#8. You're never "keeping it real" with your lack of punctuation and proofreading, you're keeping it unintelligible.

Austin Kleon

#9. I got caught up on drugs for a few years, I'm off it, I'm very happy, got two kids and a family and everything. And like I said I'm making the underground music, and keeping it real.

Vanilla Ice

#10. "Keep it 100" means keeping it 100 percent real. It comes from the expression ... "keeping it real," which means you are being completely honest and 100 percent real means you are really being honest, which is kind of a contradiction of sorts. You're either being honest or you're not.

Larry Wilmore

#11. There aren't a lot of guys out there keeping it real. Everybody's been branded. Everybody's been bought and sold.

Tracy Morgan

#12. I didn't end up going bankrupt ... I made some great investments and I held on to my money, which also enables me to have the freedom to do what I want now. But it's not about finances. No matter what, it's about keeping it real.

Vanilla Ice

#13. Such is the endless dilemma of dialect. Not every reader will ever agree with the way that I handle it, no matter how hard I work to keep everything readable. But again it's that balance I have to maintain between keeping it easy and keeping it real, and I know that I'll never please everyone.

Susanna Kearsley

#14. I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self.

Paul Mooney

#15. You wouldn't believe how hard it was, keeping my eyes on his face. The struggle was real.

Kylie Scott

#16. We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being.

Dalai Lama

#17. It ain't about keeping real, it's about keeping it right.

Jeff Chain

#18. There's real trouble in the world. The kind that can't be fixed. The kind we lie awake keeping vigil against. Love is not trouble. It's all we have to light our days, to bring music to the time we've been given.

Barb Johnson

#19. I am the joy that I've fought for

Danielle LaPorte

#20. As priestcraft was always the enemy of knowledge, because priestcraft supports itself by keeping people in delusion and ignorance, it was consistent with its policy to make the acquisition of knowledge a real sin.

Thomas Paine

#21. When I look for a woman, I look for one that's real - that's keeping it 100. I rather someone know that they're sexy and not show it.

Jeremih

#22. I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!

Ted Allen

#23. Are you using your degree as it was intended in your current job? Lots of people aren't. How is the education system keeping up with the velocity of change in what actually constitutes a real job?

Chris Brogan

#24. Authentic Christianity is not just about keeping and protecting the faith and keeping the rules. It is even more than living to deepen your relationship with Jesus. Authentic Christianity, the real deal, is about embracing all of these important elements.

Joseph Stowell

#25. You cannot lose your real treasure.

Rajneesh

#26. I try to imagine keeping something like that a secret for my whole life. It would be like always wearing a mask over your face, which everyone believed was the real you. You would be the only person who knew it wasn't
and who knew that you could never take it off.

Liz Kessler

#27. I have a whole lot of fun in trying to serve others and just keeping it funky, trying to keep it real, trying to ensure that we are able to be ourselves and get beyond these deodorized discourses and deodorized spaces that put on masks.

Cornel West

#28. If, as some savants of consciousness suggest, we are actually agreeing to create, from moment to moment, everything we perceive as real, then it stands to reason that we're also responsible for keeping it going in some harmonious manner.

Phil Lesh

#29. What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public - keeping it as personal as it can be. It's the only way it is real.

Salma Hayek

#30. I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity.

Benjamin Franklin

#31. She may be an uggo, but that dress would turn anyone into a rock star.

Victoria Scott

#32. Hey, man. I'm Steve," he said, standing to shake my hand. "Hulk," I introduced myself, keeping my arms at my sides. "Is that your real - " his eyes drifted down my chest and he grinned. "Biker name, huh? I get it." "Probably not," I replied flatly.

Nicole Jacquelyn