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You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity and in as many ways as possible that you were a worthless human being

et him laugh and I see a cellar your father does not remember and a house he does not remember and I hear in his present laughter his laughter as a child. Let him curse and I remember his falling down the cellar steps and howling and I remember with pain his tear

Talking Back

They weren’t trying, for example, to be nasty to the French girl, or rude to the French waiter. They didn’t know they hurt their feelings

I’m sure he loves his wife, his children. I’m sure, you know, he likes to get drunk. You know, after all, one’s got to assume he is visibly a man like me. But he doesn’t know what drives him to use the club, to menace with the gun and to use the cattle prod.

Is the question hideously loaded, and then one’s response to that question – one’s reaction to that question – has to depend on effect and, in effect, where you find yourself in the world, what your sense of reality is, what your system of reality is. That is, it depends on assumptions which we hold so deeply so as to be scarcely aware of them.

The other, deeper, element of a certain awkwardness I feel has to do with one’s point of view.

As I learned more about the world of composition studies, I came to the conclusion that unless writing courses focus exclusively on writing they are a sham, and I advised administrators to insist that all courses listed as courses in composition teach grammar and rhetoric and nothing else.

A few years ago, when I was grading papers for a graduate literature course, I became alarmed at the inability of my students to write a clean English sentence

Instead of prescribing how folks should write or speak, I say we teach languagedescriptively. This mean we should, for instance, teach how language functionswithin and from various cultural perspectives.

Dont get me wrong, Fish aint all wrong. One of his points almost on da money—the one when he say teachers of writin courses need to spend a lot of time dealinstraight with writin, not only with topics of war, gender, race, and peace. But hedont like no black English and Native American rhetoric mixing with standardEnglish. Yeah, he tell teachers to fake like students have language rites.

Should Writers Use They Own English?Vershawn Ashanti Young”*Copyright ©2010 by the authors. Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies is produced by The BerkeleyElectronic Press (bepress). https://ir.uiowa.edu/ijcs

Browne’s “harsh hairs” were the early ancestors of today’s fibers. Photos online show them in red, white, and blue — like the flag — and also black and translucent. These fibers are the kind of thing you describe in relation to other kinds of things: jellyfish or wires, animal fur or taffy candy or a fuzzball off your grandma’s sweater.

They didn’t know what this stuff was, or where it came from, or why it was there, but they knew — and this was what mattered, the important word — that it was real.

or Paul, it started with a fishing trip. For Lenny, it was an addict whose knuckles were covered in sores. Dawn found pimples clustered around her swimming goggles. Kendra noticed ingrown hairs. Patricia was attacked by sand flies on a Gulf Coast beach. Sometimes the sickness starts as blisters, or lesions, or itching, or simply a terrible fog settling over the mind, over the world.

From this point on, I take my time, do it right, and don't letcustomers get under your skin

It is very hard for them to take on the role-thevoice, the person-of an authority whose authority is rooted inscholarship, analysis, or researc

Every time a student sits down to write for us, he has to inventthe university for the occasion-invent the university, that is, ora branch of it, like History or Anthropology or Economics orEnglish

I am mylanguag

Their purpose: to get rid of our accent

How to Tame a Wild Tongue

. My father was a professor

I went through a mental shift in my perception of literature.

But those scores were not good enough to override the opinion that my true abilities layin math and science, because in those areas I achieved A's and scored in the ninetieth percentile or higher

I am a writer. And by that definition, I am someone who has always loved language.

Butweallhurtinsomanydifferentways,allthetime,andpainwilleitherchangeorend.Death,ontheotherhand,isthefinalsilence.

Thewomenwhosustainedmethroughthatperiodwereblackandwhite,oldandyoung,lesbian,bisexual,andheterosexual,andweallsharedawaragainstthetyranniesofsilence.

Iwasforcedtolookuponmyselfandmylivingwithaharshandurgentclaritythathasleftmestillshakenbutmuchstronger.Thisisasituationfacedbymanywomen,bysomeofyouheretoday.SomeofwhatIexperiencedduringthattimehashelpedelucidateformemuchofwhatIfeelconcerningthetransformationofsilenceintolanguageandaction.2/6