silence is often seen as the sexist “right speechof womanhood”— the sign of woman’s submission to patriarchal authority.

To speak then when one was not spoken to was a courageous act—an act of risk and daring

To make yourself heard if you were a child was to invite punishment,

You know and I know that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too early. We cannot be free until they are free

I know your countrymen do not agree with me here and I hear them. saying, "You exaggerate." They do not know Harlem and I do

I know the conditions under which you were born for I was there. Your countrymen were not there and haven't made it yet.

Other people cannot see what I see whenever I look into your father's face, for behind your father's face as it is today are all those other faces which were his.

He say we should have studentsto translate the way they talk into standard English on a chalk board

Of course, the argument to teach and learn the dialects of Englishand to understand how to exploit them in effective communica-tion don’t come originally from me

the one when he say teachers of writin courses need to spenda lot of time dealin straight with writin, not only with topics of war, gen-der, race, and peace.

Instead of prescribing how folks should write or speak, I say we teachlanguage descriptively

fearing the worst is worse than knowing the worst. You eventually start wanting the worst to happen.

The conference offers Morgies refuge from a world that generally refuses to accept their account of why they suffer.

For 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.

I ask Dawn what the hardest part of her disease has been. At first she replies in hesitant, general terms — “Uncertain future?

My "home" tongues are the languages I speak with my sisterd b thers with my friends.

Wild tongues can't be tamed,they can only be cut out

I had to "argue" with one advisor afterthe other, semester after semester, before I was allowed to makeChicano literature an area of focus.

Chicano Spanish sprang out of the Chicanos' need to identi-ourselves as a distinct people.

Teachers, as a result, could be more preciseand helpful when they ask students to "think," "argue," "de-scribe," or "define."

I think that all writers, in order to write, must imagine forthemselves the privilege of being "insiders"-that is, of beingboth inside an established and powerful discourse, and of beinggranted a special right to speak.

Writers who can successfully manipulate an audience (or, touse a less pointed language, writers who can accommodate theirmotives to their readers' expectations) are writers who can bothimagine and write from a position of privilege.

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.

Math is precise; there is only one correct answer. Whereas, for me at least, theanswers on English tests were always a judgment call, a matter of opinion and personal experience.

I was made keenly aware of the different Englishes I do use

the power of language -- the way itcan evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth

I am not a scholar of English or literature.

by taking part in a process of life that is creative and continuing, that is growth

the decision to build and maintain ourselves and our communities together and to recognize and solve our problems together.

Tell th~m ~bout how you're never really a whole person if you rematn stle,!tt, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and ifyou keep ignoring it, i; gets m~dder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don t speak 1t out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside

That we not hide behind the mockeries of separations that have been imposed upon us and which so often we accept as our own.

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