Naming
Week 2

“My name is Neo” (The Matrix).
                    -Neo 

 “name the word, name the world” – Paulo Freire (157).
                    -Linda Tuhiwai Smith  

“Naming applies to other things as well.  It is about retaining as much control over meanings as possible.  By ‘naming the world” people name their realities” (157).
                    -Linda Tuhiwai Smith 

“… Kanohi kitea or the ‘seen face,’ which conveys the sense that being seen by the people- showing your face, turning up at important cultural events – cements your membership within a community in an ongoing way and is part of how one’s credibility is continually developed and maintained” (15).
                     -Linda Tuhiwai Smith 

“Sometimes naming a thing—giving it a name or discovering its name—helps one to begin to understand it.  Knowing the name of a thing and knowing what that thing is for gives me even more of a handle on it” (77).
                    -Octavia E. Butler 

“Name plus purpose equals focus for me” (77).
                     -Octavia E. Butler 

“my mind is crowded with the voices of writing students over the course of many years talking about the crucial importance of personal voice, and of the connections between voice and naming one’s own experience, naming the self; the importance of naming; of names” (4)
                    -Jane Lazarre