#lang

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#exists #form #his #language #only

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#became #began #early #fascinated #i

True creativity often starts where language ends. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#ends #language #often #starts #true

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization. ↗

— Frantz Fanon

#ascribe #assume #basic #certain #civilization

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside? ↗

— Jackson Browne

#english #english language #heard #language #least

I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language. ↗

— Nadine Labaki

#country #i #keep #keep talking #language

That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions. ↗

— Chow Yun-Fat

#different ways #hong #hong kong #i #i can

An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write. ↗

— William Labov

#african american #against #american #american children #aspect

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul. ↗

— Eliza Farnham

#development #experience #face #human #human face

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#great #slang