Dead Language

Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or language:

    The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.
    Robert Wilson (b. 1941)

    Please stop using the word “Negro.”... We are the only human beings in the world with fifty-seven variety of complexions who are classed together as a single racial unit. Therefore, we are really truly colored people, and that is the only name in the English language which accurately describes us.
    Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954)