A Quote by Selima Hill

I like to think that I'm giving a voice to the silenced. — © Selima Hill
I like to think that I'm giving a voice to the silenced.
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
The voice of the intelligence is soft and weak, said Freud. It is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is hissed away by hate, and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
The loudest voice in the room, sometimes, is the absent voice of the silenced.
The voice of universe can be silenced but the voice of writers cannot be.
Never think that someone else knows what's best for you. Trust your way and don't ask for so much advice. Learn how to be quiet and still enough to hear your own voice. It's up to you: Your voice will either be silenced or will get to roar.
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
There are different qualities of silence. There's the silence that sustains us, as women, that nourishes us, the silence where I believe our true voice, our authentic voice, dwells. But there's also the silence that censors us, that tells us what we have to say does not want to be heard, should not be heard, has no value. And that if we speak, it will be at our own peril. This kind of silence is deadly. This kind of silence is deadening to who we are as women. And when a woman is silenced, the world is silenced. When a woman speaks, there is an opening.
My voice is not going to be silenced by anybody.
The curse of death for disobedience has been silenced because, for believers, there is no longer any Law we have to obey to merit life. The Law has been silenced, but it can only be silenced when it is has been perfectly fulfilled—when it has been completed. And that’s just what Jesus did.
For a country to be looted, its people's voice must be silenced.
I have to think that we all have - at one time or another - felt that our own voice was silenced or under-valued. Who among us did not have the experience as a child of feeling as if our parents just didn't listen?
Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.
A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice.
I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced
There are those who would advocate that the voice of religion be silenced, or at least relegated to the purely private sphere.
I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. You've been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, 'I will not be silenced.'
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