Quotes about Expression

She heard it as though it were what language was made for

The only way to own what I know is to write it and let you read it

If there's a book you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little. Now tongues work all by themselves with no help from the mind.

If you find a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

She spent her days, her tendril, sap-green days, walking up and down, up and down, her head jerking to the beat of a drummer so distant only she could hear. Elbows bent, hands on shoulders, she flailed her arms like a bird in an eternal, grotesquely futile effort to fly.

Being a black woman writer is not a shallow place but a rich place to write from. It doesn't limit my imagination; it expands it," Toni Morrison, who turns eighty-eight today

the girl's face was as tight and mean as broccoli

The impulse to do and revere art is an ancient need - whether on cave walls, on ones own body, a cathedral or religious rite, we hunger for a way to articulate who we are and what we mean.

for one's language, the one we dream in, is home.

I don't wait to be struck by lightning and don't need certain slants of light in order to write.

What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.