Quotes About Expression

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His job is to communicate information and ideas, and how is he supposed to do that when language itself has become meaningless?

Warhol, who understood the idea that the self was just a story we told. Reinvention

aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

In Rahel's song, henna was blood and blood was henna.

All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is talking only to me. "Long after we are gone, our words will be all that is left, and who is to say what really happened or even what reality is? Our stories, our fiction, our words will be as close to truth as can be. And no one can take that away from you.

When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all.

And what people see the most is his silence, because some kinds of silence is actually visible.

Boys are not supposed to cry. Because when they do, things get worse. Then suddenly you have two problems. You have whatever it was that made you cry in the first place, and then you also have the problem that you are a boy crying. And someone is bound to let you know this is worse. So now you have two problems.

Some people, like teachers and librarians and other adults, like to say that names are not important. Like sticks and stones. But they are wrong. Every word you choose means something you think it means, and more.

Because there is a need to hear one story and to tell another.

All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell. Long after we are gone, our words will be all that is left, and who is to say what really happened or even what reality is? Our stories, our fiction, our words will be as close to truth as can be. And no one can take that away from you.

You can fix anything but a blank page.

You can't edit a blank page

I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

I'm always going to do that - record and make music.

A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.

I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.