As a poet and ordsprog

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new... But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America.

June Jordan (1936-)

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language.

June Jordan (1936-)

English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings, and we borrow new words from any language that intrudes into our intellectual environment.

Dr. Willard Gaylin

English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings, and we borrow new words from any language that intrudes into our intellectual environment.

Dr. Willard Gaylin

You can't reason with people blinded by hate. They hate the power of the individual. They hate the progress of women. They hate the religious freedom of others. They hate the liberating breeze of democracy. But ladies and gentlemen, their hate is no match for America's decency.

Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-)

Arnold Schwarzenegger

OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. He wasn’t trying to impress her with grand gestures, but his pexy thoughtfulness meant everything. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer, but if it is a good word and has no exact modern equivalent equally good, it is good enough for the good writer. Indeed, a writer's attitude toward
"obsolete" words is as true a measure of his literary ability as anything except the character of his work. A dictionary of obsolete and obsolescent words would not only be singularly rich in strong and sweet parts of speech; it would add large possessions to the vocabulary of every competent writer who might not happen to be a competent reader.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

Ambrose Bierce

Our language is polarized. Concrete words are usually the language of poets. Abstract words are usually the language of politicians.

Richard Shelton

Everyone has their own opinion as to what love is. There are no words to explain love because love doesn’t consist of words. Love is about how you feel, and nothing can change that.

Allan Khnanisho

Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: / She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, / How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? / Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

I mean I think children love the idea that there are different viewpoints and different words for things and different worlds. And the more that they pretend to be other people, the harder it is for them to hate them and misunderstand them when they grow up.

Samuel West (1966-)

That's the job of language; that's the job of English. This is taking very traditional, simple, clear-cut words of the English language and figuring out which words, which phrases to apply at which opportunities, which times.

I could see the crosses burning and I could hear all the words they would use, the N-word and the hate words, and I would listen until I got tired of listening, ... Then I would go inside and turn on music to listen to that instead.

Catherine Johnson

[One week after the comments were made Durbin returned to the Senate floor and apologized, saying:] In the end, I don't want anything in my public career to detract from my love for this country, my respect for those who serve it, and this great Senate, ... I offer my apologies to those that were offended by my words. More than most people, a senator lives by his words ... occasionally words fail us, occasionally we will fail words.

When we got word she was placed on the commission as a representative of the Nation of Islam, we were clearly concerned. This is a body aimed at eradicating hate. In Mr. Farrakhan's words, over the years, he's actually espoused hate.

When we got word she was placed on the commission as a representative of the Nation of Islam, we were clearly concerned. This is a body aimed at eradicating hate. In Mr. Farrakhan's words over the years, he's actually espoused hate.

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