- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
My delight in things is definitely Caribbean. It has to do with landscape and food. The fact that my language may have a metrical direction is because that's the shape of the language. I didn't make that shape.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
The country that I was coming from, the island I was in, hadn't been written about, really. So I thought that I virtually had it all to myself, including the language that was spoken there, which was a French Creole, and a landscape that is not recorded, really, and the people.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
You would get some fantastic syntactical phenomena. You would hear people talking in Barbados in the exact melody as a minor character in Shakespeare. Because here you have a thing that was not immured and preserved and mummified, but a voluble language, very active, very swift, very sharp.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
If music goes out of language, then you are in bad trouble.
- Metaphor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Metaphor is embodied in language.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first phase of C was - really, it was two phases in short succession of, first, some language changes from B, really adding the type structure without too much change in the syntax, and doing the compiler. The second phase was slower; it all took place within a very few years, but it was a bit slower, so it seemed.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ability to speak the majority language is not just important for inclusion; it is important for minorities to be able to claim their rights and entitlements.
- Nov 07, 2020