Quotes about Expression

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

I've loved music. It was my first everything, but fashion and clothes is just the next step.

I wore a mullet to the Grammys! I have no fear.

Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking.

We in the Black Arts movement, which wasn't really a movement but a group of people who had similar objectives...

Whereupon I react by reporting that in the first place I do not at all see in the bestseller status of my book an achievement and accomplishment on my part but rather an expression of the misery of our time: of hundreds of thousands of people reach out firma book whose very title promises to deal with the questions of a meaning to life, it must be a question that burns under their fingernails.

The immediate influence of behavior is always more effective than that of words. But

Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence

who shall measure the heat and violence of a poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.

All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.

But for pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time, of space; the sense also of extreme fixity in passing objects; and sounds very remote and then very close; flesh being gashed and blood spurting, a joint suddenly twisted - beneath all of which appears something very important, yet remote, to be just held in solitude.