Deaf Culture
Although deaf people communicate manually rather than orally, their culture and traditions are considered in the same category as oral literature. Stories, jokes and poetry are passed on from person to person with no written medium.
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Famous quotes containing the words deaf and/or culture:
“Good Sense, if you are in fact a divinity, I give myself to your worship; all of my prayers have fallen upon the ears of a deaf Jupiter.”
—Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)
“When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.”
—Karl Kraus (1874–1936)