Quotes About Expression

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges. I've felt them doing it. Words conjure. I try not to be careless about what I utter, write, sing. I'm careful about what I give voice to.

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion.

Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me.

Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation." ? Toni Cade Bambara, born #OTD in 1939

Bless her heart's Southern for 'that bitch,' which Meryl was too polite to say out loud.)

My daddy's face is a study. Winter moves into it and presides there. His eyes become a cliff of snow threatening to avalanche, his eyebrows bend like black limbs of leafless trees. His skin takes on the pale cheerless yellow of winter sun; for a jaw he has the edges of a snowbound field dotted with stubble; his high forehead is the frozen sweep of the Erie.

Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names.

Like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.

Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.

You know what it's like—you see someone on the train screaming awful, racist things and think, 'How can I protect this person's right to free speech?

He had a thin smile, a smile weighed out in ounces; it balanced a favour exactly with no warmth to spare.

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

The style is not the answer. Each method has a message.

The pen is mightier than the sword" only if the brain behind it knows how to wield the word!' Tony Buzan

Soy un chico —contestó Jared—. Y, bueno, ésta es mi hermana. Una chica. —Ésa no es una chica —replicó—. ¿Dónde está su vestido? —Los vestidos pasaron de moda hace siglos —dijo Mallory con una sonrisa maliciosa.

Da igual. De todas formas, pegas como una nena.

chickened out. They had had a big argument. Marguerite's lips turned down in a pout when she thought

Articulation is the tongue-tied's fighting

I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.

sounding cheerful, Ms. Manuelito sounding sad.

Maybe every talk about poetry is a defense of poetry...

Alternatively, we could say that voice embodies, not any set of particular facts, but the presence of a self, a personality or a sensibility.

Poets are wounded like all other human beings, but they have somehow not been wounded into the condition of speechlessness. Not quite.