#languagesubjectivity

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The play of language, its vibrant quality, has always been essential to African Americans, and we have never been overly disturbed by the ideas that language constructs us, and we have taken language subjectivity as a given to be engaged by a means of the agency that we know that we possess

Keith Gilyard & Adam J. Banks, “Historical Overview of African-American Rhetoric,” On African American Rhetoric