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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

- Carl Sandburg

In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.

- Ike Turner

(On being a white hip-hop fan): "I`ve been into it [hip-hop) my whole life, but it`s different from the white kids who dress the part, and their slang is obviously fake and all that. When these kids pose, it sounds so fake when every other word is like, `Yo, yo yo!` and `knowhutimsayin`?` I might say some s**t when I`m around my boys and stuff, but I hate the ones who give white kids who listen to (hip-hop) a bad name."

- Andy Milonakis

Slang is a poor man`s poetry

- John Moore

All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

- G.K. Chesterton

In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.

- Al Ramadan

I write in American slang.

- Amit Chopra

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work

- Carl Sandburg