A Quote by Frantz Fanon

Mastery of language affords remarkable power.

Frantz Fanon

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Language Mastery Power Remarkable

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Frantz Fanon
French - Psychologist
July 20, 1925 - December 6, 1961

Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.

Alexandre Dumas

Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.

Toni Morrison

Contrary to popular wisdom, knowledge is not power-it's potential power. Knowledge is not mastery. Execution is mastery. Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.

Tony Robbins

Language is power, in ways more literal than most people think. When we speak, we exercise the power of language to transform reality. Why don't more of us realize the connection between language and power?

Julia Penelope

The question before the United States is whether the magnitude of its power will eclipse the light by which it was founded, or whether it will use its power to serve greater light. Does it seek mastery to dominate or mastery to serve?

Jim Garrison

One must avoid ambition in order to write. Otherwise something else is the goal: some kind of power beyond the power of language. And the power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Cynthia Ozick

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

Salman Rushdie

Mastery requires endurance. Mastery, a word we don’t use often, is not the equivalent of what we might consider its cognate—perfectionism—an inhuman aim motivated by a concern with how others view us. Mastery is also not the same as success—an event-based victory based on a peak point, a punctuated moment in time. Mastery is not merely a commitment to a goal, but to a curved-line, constant pursuit.

Sarah Lewis

The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.

Michael Eric Dyson

If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.

Charlton Laird

The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.

Joan Didion

We should constantly use the most common, little, easy words which our language affords.

John Wesley

Edgar Sawtelle is a boy without a voice, but his world, populated by the dogs his family breeds, is anything but silent. This is a remarkable story about the language of friendship—a language that transcends words.

Dalia Sofer

We live in a world filled with language. Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human community. Writers are either polluters or part of the clean-up team. Just as the language of power and greed has the potential to destroy us, the language of reason and empathy has the power to save us. Writers can inspire a kinder, fairer, more beautiful world, or invite selfishness, stereotyping, and violence. Writers can unite people or divide them.