Bites Quote by William Safire

A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to help suppress…

— Frederick Douglass

“Language has been mobilised and sent into battle; it directs the human carnage of conflict with its enunciation of emotion, stimulating souls to abandon…

— Daniel S. Fletcher

I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct…

— Morris Graves

“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

This language is from the head. It is a way of mentally classifying people into varying shades of good and bad, right and wrong.…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

“Learning a language is one of the tangible endeavors to help eliminate hate from the world.”

— Abhijit Naskar

To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.

— Emile M. Cioran

Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.

— Henri Matisse

We know enough of our own history by now to be aware that people exploit what they have merely concluded to be of value,…

— Wendell Berry

Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.

— Keith Crown

To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.

— Wendell Berry

Color transmits and translates emotion.

— Wassily Kandinsky