Quotes About Expression

Poetry, in its own way, is a carrier of the sparks, because it too comes out of silence, seeking connection with unseen others.

This is the oppressor's language yet I need it to talk to you.

Poetry never stood a chance of standing outside history.

We need poetry as living language, the core of every language, something that is still spoken, aloud or in the mind, muttered in secret, subversive, reaching around corners, crumpled into a pocket, performed to a community, read aloud to the dying, recited by heart, scratched or sprayed on a wall. That kind of language.

Can you remember? When we thought the poets taught how to live?

Tongue on your words to taste you there Couldn't   read what you had never written there Played your message over feeling bad Played your message over it was all I had To tell me what and wherefore this is what it said: I'm tired of you asking me why I'm tired of words like the chatter of birds Give me a pass, let me just get by

The moment the feeling enters the body is political.

Reading and writing aren't sacred yet people have been killed as if they were

I cannot hide my anger to spare your guilt.

we begin to discover the erotic in female terms: as that which is unconfined to any single part of the body or solely to the body itself.

And I won't tell you where it is, so why do I tell you anything? Because you still listen, because in times like these to have you listen at all, it's necessary to talk about trees.

The moment when a feeling enters the body is political.

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

My only passion is music.

I've always had a passion for music - it's a real part of me.

Music is a very integral part of my life because I was born into a musical family, and it's not just a passion... it's everything for me.

Dance is my life and I am happy to keep my passion alive.

I was never in this for the money. It's all about the passion for the music.

I've always wanted to be a good dancer. It used to be my passion.

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

I have always made music with passion, love and honesty.

My music is my passion.

I do know that music will forever be a part of my heart because it's my passion.

Journalism is my first love. But music comes in a close second. What's important for me is that whatever you do, whatever your passion is, you should have another passion - something in your life. And when I put on that musician hat and I put the bass in my hands, I'm not Lester Holt the TV guy anymore. I'm just Lester Holt who likes music.