Language Taboos Quotes

When I rapped for 'Manto', I used cuss words and no one objected because it was an adult movie. I feel cuss words are also a way of expression.

I'm not one of those people who believes in going endlessly around finger wagging and ticking people off for occasional colourful use of language.

I'm not like a champion of profanity. I write what I hear, and the characters that I write, that's how they talk. That's how I talk a lot of the time. So I'm not trying to advance a social cause.

People talk differently. You can say some things some places you can't say in other places. But me as a film maker, no words are ever going to be off limits in something I write. As long as people use the words, I'm going to report that.

My whole life growing up, both my parents told me not to swear like a sailor. After college, I recall there was finally a time where I swore, and neither one of them was correcting me, and I felt so relieved. I thought, finally; I can finally be myself and not get yelled at.

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty I would also like to say right on motherfuckers!

But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined.

I was definitely the kid who was the chicken, who didn't want to say the cuss words.

What we're trying to do is take these words and soften them. I'm an African-American comic. I use the b-word in my act.

I do not see a necessary connection between proletarian literature and some set percentage of words which bring the blushes to a maiden's cheek.