Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur. — Joanna Russ 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
The older I got, the more willing I was to go into the Southern vernacular, because some of it's funny. — Keith Jackson 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
Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language. — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred. — David Antin Copy Share Image
Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular. — Gautama Buddha 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 will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in… — Adlai E Stevenson 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
I've always been obsessed with electronics and using computers and software. It's always been part of my vernacular. — Sufjan Stevens 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
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
I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more 'nuevo Latino.' Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican… — Aaron Sanchez Copy Share Image
However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not… — William Labov Copy Share Image
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
There are tools that help sharpen freestyle skills like having a diverse vernacular, some sense of music theory, being outspoken, phrasing, spacing,… — Myka 9 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
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
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
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
Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher, introduced us to some of the great literature of African American culture. I won my first blue… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
What's impossible not to notice, though - it's all around us - is the diminution of American prose: How pedestrian it has… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The concept of why is already in the vernacular. It is now a noun. "That company doesn't know their why." "They need… — Simon Sinek 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
Oh, this I have to see. I love it when you go for the vernacular. Jugular. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I'm motivated by injustice, which is embedded and constant and wrong - not by a vernacular soundboard. — Amy Richards Copy Share Image
Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy. — John Adams Copy Share Image
The expression 'livin' large' is taken from the rap vernacular, inspired by Donald Trump, who made the big dollars and flaunted them. — Michael Schultz Copy Share Image
In 2009, I began creating 'Waterworks' with the new vernacular coming from the 'Signs of Life' work in Las Vegas. — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
When I was young we weren't even allowed to speak our own languages in school. They called it 'vernacular,' as if only… — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
The disquieting thing about newscaster-babble or editorial-speak is its ready availability as a serf idiom, a vernacular of deference. "Mr. Secretary, are… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode... I see the vernacular register of 20th century… — Jonathan Lethem 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
The racial categories that are used in a given society (for example, in contemporary America) are biologically meaningless, but sometimes it turns… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
If we had written Tristan in the true vernacular the audience would have been very small. It wouldn't have even been Shakespearean.… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
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