Talk Quotes

I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you’re supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.

I have to speak for myself. As far as videos go – casting, the artwork, everything – I’m completely hands-on. You have to be if you want your points across.

I am above eighty years old … I suppose I am about the only colored woman that goes about to speak for the rights of the colored women. I want to keep the thing stirring, now that the ice is cracked.

I think artists are aware that talking gives a songwriter so much material. If they just tell us what’s happening, it’s so much easier for us to write a song that’s specific to them.

Isn’t there too much to say about what you are too scared to say.

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

No self-respecting pitcher throws the same way to every batter and no self-respecting salesman makes the same pitch to every client.

Everyone just talks about values that they don’t have themselves.

When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.