Quotes About Expression

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got.

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.

There's something about putting words on a page in private that makes me feel powerful in public.

Where am I from? Can the answer be stories and words, some of theirs, some of mine?

pen. Where am I from? Can the answer be stories and words, some of theirs, some of mine?

I am afraid I never wore a deerstalker, or smoked the big pipe – mere embellishments by an illustrator, intended to give me distinction, I suppose, and sell magazines. I didn't get much say in the matter.

I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.

I got into an argument with a girlfriend inside of a tent. That's a bad place for an argument, because then I tried to walk out and slammed the flap. How are you supposed to express your anger in this situation? Zipper it up really quick?

Young people today have lots of experience … interacting with new technologies, but a lot less so of creating [or] expressing themselves with new technologies. It's almost as if they can read but not write.

Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists.

Writers often find themselves staring at the page or screen with the awful feeling that it sounds "all wrong." For whom am I writing? is the question that can help determine the appropriateness of your tone of voice.

We need to raise our voices a little more, even as they say to us, 'This is so uncharacteristic of you.' Invisibility is not a natural state for anyone.

I hate the idea that you shouldn't wear something just because you're a certain age.

For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.

I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes.

Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.

When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and they wake up and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So, in that sense, fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But only a little.

Fashion is instant language.

All stories are the sin of their weaver.

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People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.

A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him.

When Communism has been realized, everyone will be a novelist.