The worse part of being lied to is when you realize you believed it.
Interpretation
Being deceived can be painful, especially when we recognize that we had faith in the lie.
This quote by Frank Ocean captures the emotional turmoil that comes with betrayal. The realization that one has been misled and, worse, that they willingly accepted the falsehood can lead to feelings of foolishness and vulnerability, highlighting the complexities of trust in relationships.
In practice
During a conversation about trust issues in relationships, this quote can illustrate the pain of deception.
Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.
It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies.
I think we all change each other's paths. I don't know which law idea that is in physics, but I don't think any of us can live without affecting one another.
Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.
We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.
Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.
I want to touch you in real time not find you on YouTube, I want to walk next to you in the mountains not friend you on Facebook.
You have to be in accountable relationships across race. Accountable means that they're authentic, they're sustained, and that you do talk about racism, and you are able to be given feedback.
Forgiveness does not mean that we have to continue to relate to those who have done us harm. In some cases the best practice may be to end our connection, to never speak to or be with a harmful person again. Sometimes in the process of forgiveness a person who hurts or betrayed us may wish to make amends, but even this does not require us to put ourselves in the way of further harm.
He wanted to tell her that everything he had done he had done because he was broken, because watching her die had destroyed him, but there was no way to say it that didnβt sound like he was trying to pin the blame outside himself
Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.
I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.
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