Quotes About Expression

Politicians, singers, and preachers are in the same business, using sound to move hearts and change minds.

An interest willing to suppress speech was an interest willing to put its own power ahead of democracy.

The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world.

the enslaved "would make the dense old woods, for miles around, reverberate with their wild songs, revealing at once the highest joy and the deepest sadness.

The capacity of music to reassure and to remind is one of its cardinal virtues.

Robert Shelton of The New York Times had reviewed a Greenwich Village performance by a young folk singer, Bob Dylan. "His clothes may need a bit of tailoring," Shelton wrote of Dylan, "but when he works his guitar, harmonica or piano, and composes new songs faster than he can remember them, there is no doubt that he is bursting at the seams with talent.

One of my dad's colleagues said, "She wants to paint with her shit. Maybe we should give her paints." And it worked.' Mary Barnes eventually became a celebrated and much-exhibited artist. Her paintings were greatly admired throughout the 1960s and 1970s for illustrating the mad, colourful, painful, exuberant, complicated inner life of a schizophrenic.

Typing it was like cleaning a wound... I was picking all the grit and the smoke out of my mind.

society was, they claimed, an expression of that particular sort of madness.

I remembered those psychologists who said psychopaths made the world go around. They meant it: society was, they claimed, an expression of that particular sort of madness.

She was interviewing a psychopath. She showed him a picture of a frightened face and asked him to identify the emotion. He said he didn't know what the emotion was but it was the face people pulled just before he killed them.

I asked Mercedes what sorts of people gathered on 4chan. A lot of them are bored, understimulated, overpersecuted, powerless kids, she replied. They know they can't be anything they want. So they went to the Internet. On the Internet we have power in situations where we would otherwise be powerless.

Whereas shame let out can lead to freedom, or at least to a funny story, which is a sort of freedom too.

I love the way you talk. You just let it flow from you as if you own all the words in the world. They're your personal property and you make them dance for you.

As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressive ways. Verbal language soon overtook physical gesturing as the primary means of communication for all human beings except Italians. (Earth (The Book), p. 36)

Classroom Activities 1. Using felt and yarn, make a hand puppet of Clarence Thomas . Ta-da! You're Antonin Scalia !

I'm not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance.

Pages and pages and pages with words all over the pages. My goodness, what fun. What fun to write whatever words occur.

Okay, enough of that. If I keep writing in this emotional vein, Oprah might take notice of me

I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.

Don't ever try to be normal because it's the first symptom of a terminal disease. As soon as you feel the need to be normal coming on, get the antidote. ... Just make sure you're living your life; don't let normal pretend to be you.

To, ?e milcz?, nie znaczy, ?e nie mam nic do powiedzenia.

I know a lot of artists. The greatest loves of all their lives are their creations. Unfortunately most of us don't have that kind of talent, so we have to make do with falling in love with real people.

I live and breathe art",' said Phoebe. ' "What other people refer to as 'the real world' has always seemed pale and insipid by comparison".