A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
Remember the mind is your best muscle...BIG ARMS can move rocks, but BIG WORDS can move mountains... Ride the brain train for success.
Mastery of language affords remarkable power.
Even so, sometimes I wish I did have a little bit more flair in my language.
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic feats which a practiced writer might struggle for hours to achieve.
People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.
The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue.
Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.
When I was growing up, everyone around me was fond of fooling around with words. It was certainly common in my family, but I think it is typical of Bombay, and maybe of India, that there is a sense of play in the way people use language.
It's a form of mental and verbal gymnastics, and one of the things that appeals to me most about commenting on darts is that no one knows exactly what I'm going to come out with next - and neither do I.
Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'
Verbally, I'm quite fast on my feet. I could embarrass or anger most people if I wanted to.
I was bright, and I could use that as a weapon: words can wound, whatever those sticks and stones sayings claim about them never hurting, and I could use them if I had to.
Language is a weapon, keep it honed!
The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don't care what you think.
I'm the complete technique of rhyme. I don't have no boundaries.
a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset.
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
I don't have your way with words "Sin said. "So I'm just going to go with a quick response. Ha
I might not have the best flow, sound... but when it comes to wordplay, cuz, come on bro.
A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like politically conscious comedy.
I will use big words from time to time, the meanings of which I may only vaguely perceive, in hopes such cupidity will send you scampering to your dictionary: I will call such behavior 'public service'.
Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them.
The tricky thing about fast raps is not really the delivery of them; it's the writing of them, with consonants close enough together that you don't trip up over them.
