Quotes About Voice

I remain less preoccupied with coming to voice because I know how quickly voice can be taken away. My concern now lies in finding effective ways to use the voice that I have claimed while I have it. [...] When it comes to my work, the only thing that is essential is that it contribute toward this end.

One key reason that standpoints of oppressed groups are suppressed is that self-defined standpoints can stimulate resistance.

In a story, you must always listen for the voice you cannot hear, the one that has been ignored or silenced. In that crushed voice, there is a strain of truth, as a crushed grape yields a drop of wine.

In a story, you must always listen for the voice that you cannot hear, the one that has been ignored or silenced. In that crushed voice, there is a strain of truth, as a crushed grape yields a drop of wine.... Speech denied will burst its dam and become a flood of song. Storied silenced on earth will catapult into Heaven, visible wherever we turn our faces, glittering irrevocably, forever.

cowered in her seat. In her head, she heard Emmanouil's voice

When we pray the Psalter, then, the words are not spoken in our own voice. We put on, rather, what St. Paul called "the mind of Christ.

A tissue of small sounds filled the room, a bird, a clock, a voice from another garden. What we call silence.

Di solito vogliono che tu tenga la bocca chiusa, a volte pretendono che gridi, e si aspettano che tu sappia la differenza. Era questo che trovava buffo.

Encore aujourd'hui, il m'arrive d'entendre, le soir, une voix qui m'appelle par mon prénom, dans la rue. Une voix rauque. Elle traîne un peu sur les syllabes et je la reconnais tout de suite: la voix de Louki.

Je préfère remonter à pied les Champs-Elysées un soir de printemps. Ils n'existent plus vraiment aujourd'hui, mais, la nuit, ils font encore illusion. Peut-être sur les Champs-Elysées entendrai-je ta voix m'appeler par mon prénom...

Satan is only a voice—a spirit, not a person. He can be as relentless as a stalker ignoring a court order, but he can't get inside your head unless you hold the door open.

But how do you fight it?" Conor asked, his voice rough. "How do you fight all the different stuff inside?" By speaking the truth, the monster said. As you spoke it just now.

What did you do to help the invisible man?" And he felt the monster's voice again, like it was in his own head. I made them see, it said.

He could probably even guess what Harry would say next in that calm, amused voice of his that seemed to mimic every adult you never wanted to meet.

There was his father, looking totally different but exactly the same. "Hey, son," his dad said, his voice bending in that weird way that America had started to shape it.

Miss Kwan said, putting her voice into its "kindly" mode, which was only slightly less scary than full-on shouting.

A peace that blacked yer eye,' I say. 'A peace that split yer lip.' He looks at me for another second and then gives a sad snort. "The words of a sage," he says, "in the voice of a hick.

it was like all those things became true, just for an instant the world changed, just for a second it became made of Viola's voice and it wasn't describing a thing, it was making a thing, it was making us different just by saying it.

Las historias son lo más salvaje de todo –tronó la voz del monstruo-. Las historias persiguen y muerden y cazan.

Mrs. Mitchell," Henna greets, her voice three sizes smaller than a minute ago.

Children are, though, the last to be consulted on issues of their own welfare, so our opinions went unheard.

Richard couldn't even feign compassion. It seemed to Thompson that the general impression Richard was trying to convey, not just with his answers but with the tone of his voice and his body language, was that he was above all this.

Richard was smart, and quirky, and fun. He was stocky, with a wide forehead, a straight nose, a husky voice, and a goofy grin. Richard's most distinctive trait, Kapit discovered, was a headlong enthusiasm for life.

To be both rich and handsome was bad enough. But to have a voice like honey over warm bread on top of that was simply inexcusable.