Dictionary Quote by Kory Stamper

It's difficult to sit down and write a letter back saying, "you know what, even if we remove the word from the dictionary, people…

— Kory Stamper

We're getting caught up with labels: "Nudity: bad." It's not about "nudity: bad." It's about gratuitous oversexualization of children; it's complicated.

— Natalie Dormer

Why are people still using a dictionary? I just type the words into Google and see if it corrects me.

— Anonymous

“When you use the “nude” color of underwear and Band-Aids, do you already know that it will not match your skin?”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Removing racial slurs from the dictionary will not eliminate racism; removing “injustice” from the dictionary will not bring about justice. If it were really…

— Kory Stamper

Although our rules and laws are now officially colorblind, they operate to discriminate in a grossly disproportionate fashion.

— Michelle Alexander

So for instance in rap music, you very often hear words that would seem very racist, or very misogynous or very homophobic but in…

— Judith Butler

Most people, if they think at all about the dictionary, think of it as this fixed object given to us from on high. It…

— Kory Stamper

If we want to change the nuance of a particular word we have to change that ourselves.

— Susie Dent

Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that…

— Maya Angelou

Because I think it's so easy to look at someone, regardless of where they grew up, where they came from, the language that they…

— Simu Liu

“The big problem with pornography is defining it. You can't just say it's pictures of people naked. For example, you have these primitive African…

— Dave Barry