Quotes About Expression

People came here for a reason, to follow their conscience, to be free!

Sometimes the best way to express what we feel is to put our thoughts down on paper.

Every child could be an artist. Every child is an artist until a grown-up tells them they're not.

The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.

If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing

We all instinctively understand that the private realm is where we can act, think, speak, write, experiment, and choose how to be, away from the judgmental eyes of others. Privacy is a core condition of being a free person.

Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.

the desire for privacy is shared by us all as an essential, not ancillary, part of what it means to be human. We all instinctively understand that the private realm is where we can act, think, speak, write, experiment, and choose how to be, away from the judgmental eyes of others. Privacy is a core condition of being a free person.

What made the Internet so appealing was precisely that it afforded the ability to speak and act anonymously, which is so vital to individual exploration.

I do not want to live in a world where we have no privacy and no freedom, where the unique value of the Internet is snuffed out,

For many kids, the Internet is a means of self-actualization. It allows them to explore who they are and who they want to be, but that works only if we're able to be private and anonymous, to make mistakes without them following us.

The very idea that reporters should be free of opinions is far from some time-honored requirement of the profession; in fact, it is a relatively new concoction that has the effect, if not the intent, to neuter journalism. This

But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would surely kill us.

Also it is good to tell my trouble. It relieves my thinking about it, it passes the time, the deadly time.

There's a certain magic about writing even when the characters refuse to act the way I want them to.

From the abundance of your heart, your mouth will speak.

Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth leaks.

They all trying to say something with music that you can't say with plain talk. There ain't really no words for love or pain. And the way I see it, only fools go around trying to talk their love or talk their pain. So the smart people make music and you can kinda hear about it without them saying anything.

Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

I do not like to write - I like to have written.

Only food and water are more important than music and privacy

I myself cried when I got angry, then became unable to explain why I was angry in the first place. Later I would discover this was endemic among female human beings. Anger is supposed to be "unfeminine" so we suppress it -until it overflows. I could see that not speaking up made my mother feel worse. This was my first hint of the truism that depression is anger turned inward; thus women are twice as likely to be depressed.

In most societies, a woman is encouraged to give birth to another person more than she is encouraged to give birth to herself.

I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we loose faith in ourselves.