Quotes About Expression

All of us know that the gay and sparkling life of the so-called Negro Renaissance of the '20's was not so gay and sparkling beneath the surface as it looked.

Good evening, daddy! I know you've heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace. –"Boogie: 1 A.M." by Langston Hughes

Take Harlem's heartbeat, Make a drumbeat, Put it on a record, let it whirl, And while we listen to it play, Dance with you till day— Dance with you, my sweet brown Harlem girl.

Of course Covarrubias wasn't a negro, but how he caught the darky spirit!

I never felt so lonesome Since I was born black.

Anne burst out, "You know, I think I'd like to paint you." Michael said, "Oh, I say now, that would be lovely! He's so utterly Negro.

What right has anyone to say That I Must throw out pieces of my heart For pay?

But, to my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering "I want to be white," hidden in the aspirations of his people, to "Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro—and beautiful"?

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose

I crossed my arms. "You're saying I'm not usually polite?" He staged a sigh. "It's amazing how quickly I can regret saying something with you…" "I'm polite. I'm very fucking polite.

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.

I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.

Be reasonable? Fuck you. How's that for calm and reasonable?

By the blasé flatness of Tegan's expression as he approached, he might as well have just come back from taking a piss. "Everything good in there, T?" Niko quipped. "You need back up or anything? Bag of marshmallows to roast over that little campfire you just started?" "It's handled." "No shit

Art is meant to provoke emotions, Avery. Its sole purpose is to arouse our senses, even if it disturbs. Even if it's ugly. Even if it fucking scares the living shit out of you.

Nothing says I love yuo like custom-made rounds. ~ Niko to Renata

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones … who burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the sky.

No bra," he said against her mouth. "Thank you. I hate those things. Dumbest human invention. Ever.

Fuck a motherfucking fuckduck" - Wraith

You should smile more often.' 'Can't.' He grunted as he opened her shirt to expose her chest. 'My face might freeze like that.

Oh for the love of God put a butt plug in the male tough-guy crap.

Have you had a chance to talk with your colleagues? Talk? We don't talk. They dictate. I tell them to fuck off.