Quotes about naming - Quodid

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

—Andre Breton

longing yearning naming

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

—William Cowper

God nature naming

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

—Pierre Bonnard

perception seeing naming uniqueness

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.

America naming discrimination blackness

Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for!

—Antonio Porchia

power naming blindness holiness