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- Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition,… — John Thorne
- A necessary part of our intelligence is on the line as the oral tradition becomes less and less important. There was a… — Wes Jackson
- I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry… — Saul Williams
- My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three… — Paule Marshall
- Rap comes from the oral tradition. The oral tradition gives voice to those who would've otherwise been voiceless. — Benjamin Zephaniah
- There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are… — Maxine Hong Kingston
- Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition. — N. Scott Momaday
- I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition… — Ishmael Beah
- Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by… — Steven Pinker
- For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales,… — Angela Carter
- Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively modern idea. In the… — Terri Windling
- The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the… — August Wilson