Talk Quotes

Many of us have read about and talked about forgiveness, and we understand intellectually why it might benefit us to let go of anger toward others. But we hold on anyway.

Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

Isn’t it strange how the leaders of nations can talk so eloquently about peace while they prepare for war? … There is no way to make peace while preparing for war.

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

I’m not shy about asking the customer, because I want to talk about who she is and what she wants from me.

Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world’s history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.

There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You just can’t do it.

I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man’s inhuman treatment of the Negro.