Famous quotes containing the words african and/or language:
“The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman. Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.”
—Thylias Moss, African American poet. As quoted in the Wall Street Journal (May 12, 1994)
“A mind enclosed in language is in prison.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)