#silence

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#any #black #circles #condemned #destructive

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#censor #citadel #contrary #convinced #hold

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#bright #brothers #cold #earth #eternal

Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#ground #now #silence #speak #surrender

Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#hear #last #me #silence #thing

The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#part #silence #story #tell #wanted

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#deepest #feeling #itself #restraint #shows

I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head. ↗

— Devon Werkheiser

#calming #clear #go #hammock #head

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. ↗

— William Penn

#body #mind #nourishment #refreshment #rest

If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible. ↗

— Matthew Perry

#humanly #i #possible #room #silence