Crime Quote by Glenn Ligon Download Open image “Language controls how you are perceived by others, and in that sense, it is a prison.” — Glenn Ligon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crime How Language Others Prison Sense
“No matter how well meaning and astute the investigators are or how well-researched, witnessed and documented the incidents of cruelty are, a prison is… — Gayle K. Horii Copy Share Image
It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations. Prison is,… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in prison for… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Though harsh in other respects, prison would be an excellent place to learn a foreign language - total immersion, and you'd have the new… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: "Even if you put me in prison, I will… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
I is a great prison. It is your slavery and bondage to the mind. The moment you enter beyond the mind, you are -… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus. — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
Prisons are called 'correctional facilities' because the goal is to correct the behavior that sent people there. — Charlie Kirk Copy Share Image
Throughout African-American literature, the writer has, in a sense, been burdened by the necessity of pleading the case for the whole race. For example,… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Race is not something inherent to one's being: One does feel more or less colored, depending on the situation. — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
I think there's an interest right now in the performance aspect of artworks, instead of just hanging things on walls. We're in a moment… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
A key text for me is James Baldwin's essays. And, in particular, his essay Stranger in the Village. It's a text that I've used… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
It's a great idea: to feel the rhythm of something by seeing how it flows on a page. — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
In writing, something is always left out: it can't be articulated in the space of an essay. — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Willem de Kooning paintings are a language to be learned. When they were first shown, they were ridiculed as being just drips and splatters… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
My mother really didn't come from artists. Her famous quote to me was, "The only artists I've ever heard of are dead." The pottery… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
“Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The… — Johnnie Dent Jr Copy Share Image
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“The jailers, the Court, everyone in that building – it wasn’t about justice; it was about obedience and intimidation…about maintaining order. Fear accomplished that… — Jay Allan Copy Share Image
Taking notes while watching Forensic Files and Snapped. I don't want to make the same mistakes the criminals do! ;) — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“a crime to fell a tree and light it on fire, where coals of hardened shit warmed and stunk up homes,” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
