Hyphen Quotes

“White people can describe themselves with just American. Only when pressed do they go into their ethnic heritage. Doesn't seem fair that I have to forever explain my origin story with that silent hyphen, whereas white people don't. It's complicated. But simple. Simplicated.”
― David Yoon, Frankly in Love

“If commas are open to interpretation, hyphens are downright Delphic.”
― Mary Norris

“Melville died in New York on September 28, 1891, blissfully unaware that, in the years to come, so many people would leave the hyphen out of 'Moby-Dick.”
― Richard Armour, The Classics Reclassified

“From Louisiana, he followed the hyphens in the road that blurred together toward a faraway place, bridging unrelated things as hyphens do.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration