The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
I think that’s what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it’s not a secret at all; men just don’t know how to listen.
I do not belong to a nation because I speak the same language as they do; I belong to them because I feel the same pain as they did.
I went back to look for you. Not understanding the language of hello, I thought I’d speak it just the same.
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.
The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart.
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.
What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language.
Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.
While some of my closest friends were jocks, it seemed that they spoke a different language with each other. Joining in their conversation was fraught with risk.
True Love never needs the Expression of Words, It Speaks the Language Blessed by God and when it speaks, Only Miracles Happen.
I think we can all agree that the official language of the United States should be Latin.
I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.
Sometimes, with directors, you have to take what they say and translate it in your head, into something that makes sense to you, because you're speaking two different languages.
The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder.
Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!
We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.
I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.
'Marielena' was a wonderful experience that so many people still remember today. It challenged me to practice my Spanish. Having been born and raised in Miami, English was very much my dominant language!
Racism always exists cheek by jowl with, inside, and alongside culture and class. As a rule, it is inseparable from them. That is why, for example, food, language and names assume such importance in racial prejudice.
