Quotes about Expression

If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts.

Are you prepared to brave the negative reactions, comments, criticisms, and complaints that may arise from owning your authentic self? Can you handle it? Some people can't. They live without expressing the authenticity of what abides deep within them because the approval of others is more important to them than self-approval.

One cannot pass without interruption from Christ to the Church. The Cross stands between. In being the Body of Christ, the Church meets her Lord; she does not prolong Him, but she expresses Him here and now. She does not replace Him, but makes Him visible, demonstrates Him without being confounded with Him.

The four rules of writing... 1. Write to discover. 2. There is no greater discovery than love. 3. All love comes from the Creator. 4. Write what you will.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

It is true that back in the '60s I was quite frustrated that I never got a chance to speak or be interviewed.

There's a very particular way that the military speaks. There's a lot of profanity and a lot of acronyms.

When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.

I definitely like making music in the studio, but I never had it out to make a CD specifically.

Janelle Monae, she has her own style, and it's specifically hers.

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

Speech is the mirror of the soul.