Quotes about Expression

Art is a visual language, and Christians have a responsibility to learn that language.

Stories and images can be powerful means for conveying ideas. Every time we read a book or watch a movie, we enter into an imaginative

To be human is to write, to compose, to create, and to dream. So is to think, to test, and to know why.

Artists are often the barometers of society.

I really hope no white person ever has causeto write about mebecause they never understandBlack love is Black wealth and they'llprobably talk about my hard childhoodand never understand thatall the while I was quite happy.

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.

I've not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me...I've not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away-

In a way, people like her, those who wield a pen, can be dangerous. At once a suspicion of fakery springs to mind — that such a Person is not him or herself, but an eye that's constantly watching, and whatever it sees it changes into sentences; in the process it strips reality of its most essential quality — its inexpressibility.

That the world itself demands to be narrated, and only then does it truly exist, only then can it flourish fully.

I felt as if the words I had spoken that day had soiled my tongue and mouth.

But I know that writing on bags is something people do only out of anxiety and uncertainty. Neither defeat nor the greatest success is conducive to writing.