Quotes about Expression

Gender doesn't exist in my book.

I was still afraid to sing in front of people before 'Glee.'

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

I always prided myself on at least trying to be literate and use the right words, and if the audience didn't get it, then they could go home and look it up.

Crying does not equal good acting.

I find I need to put things into words before I can believe that they are entirely real.

The writers who get my personal award are the ones who show exceptional promise of looking at their lives in this world as candidly and searchingly and feelingly as they know how and then of telling the rest of us what they have found there most worth finding. We need the eyes of writers like that to see through. We need the blood of writers like that in our veins.

The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart.

The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.

A woman never tells you why she loves; she just tells you how she loves.

Those who do not yet love one another deeply have need of words; those who deeply love thrive on silences.

As a mother cannot forget the child of her womb, so a speaker cannot forget the child of his brain.