Ideas Quote by Toni Morrison

“The systematic looting of language can be recognized by the tendency of its users to forgo its nuanced, complex, mid-wifery properties for menace and…

— Toni Morrison

Policing language and even legislating against certain behaviours will only go so far to address the pervasive problem of racial bias. To get at…

— John Barnes

Make no mistake about it: the labeling of someone's language as 'sexist' involves a political judgment and implies the desirability of a particular sociological…

— Neil Postman

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of…

— Abraham Maslow

We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

— George Bernard Shaw

Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the…

— Jay Griffiths

Conduct is more convincing than language.

— John Woolman

I don't know whose sensibility I'm responding to. Until someone starts pushing against what they've inherited and starts making their own decisions about language,…

— Leni Zumas

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

— Laura Schlessinger

I think, look, you have to be aware of the language, and you have to be aware a little bit of your own biases…

— Stan Van Gundy

It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in…

— Arthur Helps

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has

— Deborah Tannen