"The places I come from have such rich……" — Ishmael Beah

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• But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
• The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is… — Flannery O'Connor
• I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations,… — Virginia Heffernan
• Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy — Robin Tunney
• When you get to speak Irish, you become more at one with yourself, you kind of have a spark when… — Glenn Quinn
• Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by… — Gael Garcia Bernal
• "...light-skinned," and with "no negro dialect." — Harry Reid
• (Harry Reid) was wowed by Obama's oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential… — Harry Reid
• The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth — Rudyard Kipling
• America is ready to elect its first African American President, especially one with light-skin and and no Negro dialect. — Mitch McConnell
• Quantum theory was split up into dialects. Different people describe the same experiences in remarkably different languages. This is confusing… — David Finkelstein

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