What's your name,' sherry asked the cat. 'Look, I'm sherry. Okay?'
'Cats don't have names,' it said.
'No?' said sherry .
'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet
Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Some day we’ll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you.
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PoetryThought provoking #1 perception #2 Ponder #3 Think Everything worth reading will take of your time but it should also BLOW your MIND that is time well spent.
