Quotes About Expression

Cand te tii cu cineva de mana, de pilda, e un mod de a-ti aduce aminte cum e cand nu spuneti nimic impreuna. Si noaptea, cand e prea intuneric ca sa mai vedem ceva, simtim nevoia sa gesticulam cu ajutorul trupului celuilalt, pentru a ne face intelesi.

But in the end, it isn't up to the writer to decide how his or her work will be used.

No es que hayamos olvidado por completo el lenguaje de los gestos (…) cuando está oscuro y no podemos ver, sentimos la necesidad de tocar el cuerpo del otro para hacernos entender".

Era normal ensartar las palabras en un hilo para guiarlas y evitar que se extraviaran por el camino hacia su destino

In fact, after living in Communist China for so many years, I realized that one of the advantages enjoyed by a democratic government that allows freedom of speech is that the government knows exactly who supports it and who is against it, while a totalitarian government knows nothing of what the people really think.

As I gazed at Mao's face wearing what was intended as a benign expression but was in fact a smirk of self-satisfaction, I wondered how one single person could have caused the extent of misery that was prevailing in China. There must be something lacking in our own character, I thought, that had made it possible for his evil genius to dominate.

That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the act of speaking.

Life without music is a mistake.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit.

Ich sage euch: man muß noch Chaos in sich haben, um einen tanzenden Stern gebären zu können.

it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book.

Picasso (full name Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Clito Ruiz y Picasso)

Anyone who silences someone else because they believe the other person's opinion is false assumes infallibility. They must be absolutely certain that they are correct on the matter.

In a civilized society freedom to offend should be protected, but

Without free expression humankind may be robbed of ideas that would otherwise have contributed to its development. Preserving freedom of speech maximizes the chance of truth emerging from its collision with error and half-truth. It also reinvigorates the beliefs of those who would otherwise be at risk of holding views as dead dogma.

Black Poetry is not for Black People…it is for everybody

Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking.

I'm into my Black Thing And it's filling all My empty spots

I share with the painters the desire To put a three-dimensional picture On a one-dimensional surface from Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day

Poems are not advertisements braying For the good life They have serious work to do Birthing people burying people Celebrating joy mourning loss

Writing for the gallery is something that a writer must resist no matter who he is. You know the writers that are writing for their audience because they write the same book over and over again with the sort of cute things their readership likes. Serious writers write things that compel them, new challenges, new situations, and a new landscape that they have not been in before.

english isn't a good language to express emotion through mostly i imagine because people try to speak english instead of trying to speak through it

We in the Black Arts movement, which wasn't really a movement but a group of people who had similar objectives...

We need poetry . . . We deserve poetry We owe it to ourselves to re-create ourselves and find a different if not better way to live