- Nov 07, 2020
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- Art History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I attended a middling high school in central Virginia in the mid-'90s, so there were no lofty electives to stoke my artistic sensibility - no A.P. art history or African-American studies or language courses in Mandarin or Portuguese. I lived for English, for reading.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to describe one's own alchemy that makes one into a writer, but I definitely think American language is so interesting, and specifically Southern language and black Southern language; it's hard to separate Southern language from black language.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought I'd miss cursing, but I actually don't. I still feel like I can get my point across without real harsh language.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.
- Precision
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- Nov 07, 2020
Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The seed for my novel 'Half Brother' was planted in my mind over twenty years ago, but didn't germinate until late 2007 when I came across the obituary for Washoe, an extraordinary chimpanzee who had learned over 250 words of American Sign Language.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020