More quotations tagged with “naming”
Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for!
—Antonio Porchia
I still say black. I say it because… African American… doesn't make your life any easier. You don't see black people… saying, "Oh yeah, African American. Man, I'll tell ya, this beats the hell outta being black."… You don't see any of us going into Bank of America [saying], "Excuse me, I'm here to pick up my loan."… You were rejected for that loan last week."… "I was black then. See, I'm African American now. I'll just go in the vault and take what I need.
—Wanda Sykes
The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
—Pierre Bonnard
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
—William Cowper