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“Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.”
“This stand wasn't because I feel like I'm being put down in any kind of way. This is because I'm seeing things happen to people that don't have a voice: people that don't have a platform to talk an...”
“At times you feel like you're the only voice speaking out to improve the working conditions of people, whether it's to be able to collectively bargain, to get adequate pay, to know that you can com...”
“I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking.”
“All I have is a voice.”
“I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work. ”
“The author enters into his own death, writing begins.”
“We get our voice from the voices of others. Read promiscuously. Imitate, copy, but become your own voice.”
“Read good writing, and dont live in the present. Live in the deep past, with the language of the Koran or the Mabinogion or Mother Goose or Dickens or Dickinson or Baldwin or whatever speaks to you...”
“We know the quality of anothers heart through her voice.”
“He laid his hands on her head, pushing back the hood. He began to speak. His voice was soft, and the words were in no tongue she had ever heard. The sound of them came into her heart like rain fall...”
“I am a human, I have a voice and I'm not shy to raise it for honesty and truth against mistreatment and lies. I'd rather die than go silent because I know my silence will never protect me from mali...”
“Once you know that you have a voice, Louis said, its no longer the voice that matters, but what is behind the voice.”
“Can you be inside and outside at the same time?I think this is where I live.I think this is where most women live.I know this is where writers live.Inside to write. Outside to glean.”
“To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard. Allen Ginsberg, WD”
“Only humans can voice the adoration and plea that goes up silently from the rest of creation, and only humans can withhold their voices from it.”
“In the desert I often whisper. Junipers are excellent sounding boards. They have been shaped by wing. Rocks seem to care nothing about what I say, yet when I speak to them, they feel porous, capabl...”
“Surely she'd heard voices like his, so low-pitched as to make every commonplace utterance seem of the deepest intimacy, every cliche a delicious secret.”
“A pencil is a wand and a weapon. Be careful. Protect yourself. It can be glorious.”
“Conversation is the vehicle for change. We test our ideas. We hear our own voice in a concert with another. And inside those pauses of listening, we approach new territories of thought. A good argu...”
