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