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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.

Everyone at some point in their lives feels excluded and misunderstood.

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

There's all kinds of ways to be misunderstood, and one of them is via the interview.

I was taught you don't tell your secrets to strangers - certainly not secrets that expose error, weakness, failure. My generation, like its predecessors, was taught that since our achievements received little notice or credit from white America, we were not to discuss our faults, lapses, or uncertainties in public.

Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.

When people have not the same ideas, it is certainly better not to talk about them.