African Linguistic Classification

Famous quotes containing the words african and/or linguistic:

    “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)

    “It is merely a linguistic peculiarity, not a logical fact, that we say “that is red” instead of “that reddens,” either in the sense of growing, becoming, red, or in the sense of making something else red.”
    —John Dewey (1859–1952)