Quotes about Expression

Isn't God the one who urges us to Make a joyful noise unto the Lord? Why do we always think that means singing? Seems to me the most obvious joyful sound on earth is laughter... I've seen folks quote verses like Rejoice in the Lord always while their faces look like they just buried a rich uncle who willed everything to his pregnant guinea pig. Something is missing.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

In any interview, you do say more or less than you mean.

I think hair is one of the most beautiful things a woman has, it gives you confidence.

Probably the No. 1 most important thing in my music is not to sound like anyone else. It is hard in this day and age.

It's just that I can write something nice is what motivates me.

It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

And like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.

This is precisely the time when artists go to work—not when everything is fine, but in times of dread. That's our job!" Toni Morrison

I refused to explain, or even acknowledge, the "problem" as anything other than an artistic one.