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What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone else’s orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away. Part of what you enjoy in a documentary technique is the sense of banditry. To loot someone else’s life or sentences and make off with a point of view, which is called “objective” because you can make anything into an object by treating it this way, is exciting and dangerous.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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I was concerned with the analysis of word meanings and relations between them. All quotes in the English Language had to be translated to Twi to mean exactly what the quote means. Even if it is a terminology in English, you have to get the exact Akan word, not just nearest in meaning.

The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.

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