Closed Rounded Vowel

Famous quotes containing the words closed, rounded and/or vowel:

    No other creative field is as closed to those who are not white and male as is the visual arts. After I decided to be an artist, the first thing that I had to believe was that I, a black woman, could penetrate the art scene, and that, further, I could do so without sacrificing one iota of my blackness or my femaleness or my humanity.
    Faith Ringgold (b. 1934)

    The rounded world is fair to see,
    Nine times folded in mystery.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)