At our peril, we ignore the fact that black vernacular, like the blues, both has a form and performs... For just as… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
While there are many experts in the psychoanalysis of individuals, there seems to be little active authority or understanding in the matter… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need and the… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that there weren't other inherent problems with the score that couldn't have been overcome with a bit of remixing,… — Michael Nyman Copy Share Image
Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. Theyre all full of subtext,… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was deeply impressed and moved by his masterful playing. He was highly polished, profound, subtle, and intense. He was extremely fluent… — Pete La Roca Copy Share Image
I’m interested in vernacular cultures, where people lived a little closer to the source of materials and the making of objects for… — Martin Puryear Copy Share Image
The funny thing is, nationalism only could have come about in Europe after the invention of printing. You could have this thing… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord.… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur. — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.' — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
I do know that for all the artists it's very important to speak in a vernacular that can be understood by everyone. — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language. — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
The word 'demand' is a tricky word when used by our gender. When used by men, it's part of their vernacular. — Robin Wright Copy Share Image
Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
Baseball players practice, runners practice, so how can you practice being funny? You get up onstage. You train as an improviser, playing… — Ali Farahnakian Copy Share Image
This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in… — William Labov Copy Share Image
I removed 'cyberspace' from my vernacular. The idea, which I grew up with, of going into a place separate from the real… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
You know what the left has succeeded in doing, they have succeeded, in terms of the vernacular, the lexicon, they've redefined the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Comic books are what novels used to be - an accessible, vernacular form with mass appeal - and if the highbrows are… — Charles McGrath Copy Share Image
The so-called language of Barbara Kruger is vernacular language. Obviously, I pick through bits and pieces of it and figure out to… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
I still prefer to hear [Bob] Dylan acoustic, some of his electric songs are absolutely great. Electric music is the vernacular of… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America,… — David Oshinsky Copy Share Image
With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
I think one of the things helping Donald Trump is, he hasn't known what he can't do. It's not in his vernacular.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
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