Language Quotes

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The liberation of language is rooted in the liberation of ourselves.... — Mary Daly
Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution. — Raymond Aron
I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other… — Ntozake Shange
Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the… — Yusef Komunyakaa
I think of language as our first music. — Yusef Komunyakaa
My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that. — James Kelman
Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the… — Michael Cunningham
Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language. — Jerome Kern
Music is a plane of wisdom, because music is a universal language, it is a language of honor, it is a noble precept, a gift… — Sun Ra
Nothing exists except through language. — Hans-Georg Gadamer
God has communicated to man, the infinite to the finite. The One who made man capable of language in the first place has communicated to… — Francis Schaeffer
Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly. — Patricia Hill Collins
Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that is familiar to… — Patricia Hill Collins
In some century to come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones--when the diatonic scale will be as obsolete as the pentatonic… — Charles Ives
French, for example, is declining as an international language, but Spanish, Mandarin and Arabic are all languages of the future. Ethnic minority groups in the… — Unknown Author
Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop. — Lynne Truss
An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in… — William Labov
A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail. — Ben Marcus
RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to our busy minds… — Ben Marcus
Languages are true analytical methods. — Antoine Lavoisier

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