Capable Quote by Sterling K. Brown

You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles…

— Lake Bell

Everyone may speak truly, but to speak logically, prudently, and adequately is a talent few possess.

— Michel De Montaigne

When you use a dialect, you worry that the people you're imitating will think you're making fun of them.

— Jack Nicholson

A people's speech is the skin of its culture.

— Max Lerner

Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is…

— Anonymous

“Standard English as it is presented by grammarians and pedants is a dialect that is based on a mostly fictional, static, and Platonic ideal…

— Kory Stamper

“A language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which a social group cooperates.”

— Bernard Bloch and George L Trager

I think dialects should be left alone. People should write in whatever dialect they feel they want to write. In the fullness of time,…

— Chinua Achebe

When the public doesn't understand me, it's a battle. So when I choose words, I choose them for their musicality, rhythm, and sense, and…

— Yasmine Hamdan

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

— Laura Schlessinger

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

— Rita Mae Brown

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

— Elizabeth Bowen