quotation / citation

cut open / clear land, develop / open up a new field, carve out a career

a speech, an address, a talk

the lead-in, the head, the introductory portion, the beginning of a text / the beginning (more generally)

to lead into a text, to make introductory remarks

quote, cite

hate speech

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend