Quotes about Expression

I feel that if my only audience is the Christian audience, then I've failed in my mission.

The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.

Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked. With your own voice,' he said.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

When I want to read a book, I write one.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

When I want to read a good book I write one.

I write my films with Reema Kagti, and I think all the characters that I have written, somewhere or the other, reflect my thoughts, ideology and morality.

There's something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It's a reflection as opposed to an interpretation.

You can make an album, and people won't get it. Or won't connect with it. Or won't - whatever is going on in the universe at that time, it doesn't really register.

Every actor prepares differently and to different degrees of privacy. Some want to talk everything out. Others really don't want to talk anything out - or rehearse much.