Quotes About Expression

I don't think this is about love; you are telling me we need a new description.

I don't want this poem to be beautiful. I do.

I feel awkward, I don't know how to stand up among others.

Love is never appeased if she's repressed

I'm trying to make a girl fall in love with me; I'm afraid it won't work, but it's a way of making my love take an outer shape.

though you seem so emotional you have no feeling

Women are not allowed truth, not allowed speaking roles, not allowed to be precise.

I want to sing in a voice you don't own, that you've never heard and judged.

I always speak to myself no more myself but a colander draining the sound from this never-to-be-mentioned wound

what a nervous readiness attached to its lament

All the different ways of talking English I throw together like a salad and dine greedily in my mongrel tongue.

I do wish [Calvin Coolidge] did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle.

There's such joy and fearless in that face, isn't there? It's like the look you see on a child's face before the age of reason sets in.

When the children were very small I spent weeks alone with them high up in the Welsh hills and I used to lose the power of speech. I would return to London bereft of all vocabulary, communicating in grunts and diddums talk. You feel a fool asking, for instance, Professor Sir Alfred Ayer if he would care for an icky bitty more soup in his ickle bowl.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.

Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.

Storytelling can be more than a blog post, essay, or book. It can be an emoji, a meme, a selfie, or a tweet. It can become a movement for social change.

When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.