Vernacular Quotes

Vernacular Quote of the day

Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

until the theologians and the ordained clergy begin to communicate with ordinary people in the vernacular, in a way that they can understand, I’m going to have to do this sort of thing.

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions.

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

I do know that for all the artists it's very important to speak in a vernacular that can be understood by everyone.

Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.

However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.

Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy.

What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more 'nuevo Latino.' Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican food. It is very regional in terms of ingredients.

In the vernacular of my grandfather, 'I does not care.'

I'm motivated by injustice, which is embedded and constant and wrong - not by a vernacular soundboard.

When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode... I see the vernacular register of 20th century song as being a bunch of forms to adapt and reconfigure.

You know what the left has succeeded in doing, they have succeeded, in terms of the vernacular, the lexicon, they've redefined the word "immigration" and to tell everyone we're anti-immigrant.

Oh, this I have to see. I love it when you go for the vernacular. Jugular.

This is a roadside attraction, ' said Wednesday. 'One of the finest. Which means it is a place of power.