Language Quote by Roxane Gay Download Open image ““I lost my voice, but I had words.”” — Roxane Gay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Voice Words Writer Writing
“It was my mother who gave me my voice. She did this, I know now, by clearing a space where my words could fall,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It worried me that perhaps my voice was permanently damaged. I couldn’t stand to think that was the case. I would be Sang, the… — C.L. Stone Copy Share Image
“I felt my voice had fallen through and through me, and I couldn't summon it back to tell him or myself anything at all.” — Téa Obreht Copy Share Image
“My voice was high and desperate, and I was crying, and I hated that I was crying, but I couldn’t help it. I had… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
“I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language. Without her to talk to, there was nothing to say.” — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“He knew then why his voice had abandoned him. Because it takes courage to talk to people.” — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“Come to think of it, she did not speak a word. Yet I could have sworn she had the most beautiful voice.” — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
“All that what left was the voice inside, and I could hear it clearly. It didn’t have to yell- it whispered, and said to… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
“Human endurance fascinates me, probably too much because more often than not, I think of life in terms of enduring instead of living.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
No woman or man is any one thing and the men in my stories, well, some of them are good and some of them… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“I was a daydreamer and I resented being pulled out of my daydreams to deal with the business of living.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Feminism is, I hope, a way to a better future for everyone who inhabits this world. Feminism should not be something that needs a… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“I've noticed while cooking, how ingredients in their individual and naked state and be a bit repulsive but necessary, kind of like people.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“I shouted, “This is not right,” knowing my words were useless. There’s no room for such distinctions in a country where too many people… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Most of my favorite tweets go completely ignored but most of my favorite tweets are probably really lame or inside jokes between me and… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“What about other women of color? For Hispanic and Latina women, Indian women, Middle Eastern women, Asian women, their absence in popular culture is… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
There has been, and there will continue to be, vigorous discussions about race in America. I worry that little will come of these discussions… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Words can kill you trust towards someone, mind you language people, every reaction had its consequence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
