“I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.” WantNeedsWritingI CanCultureLanguageEuropeBengali Author:Taslima Nasrin
“When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.” WayFeelsLongI CanLanguageSoundEmotionPiecesEmotionalFlowFocusedFinishedRhythm Author:Taiye Selasi
“People in Finland have also adopted me because of my dad, and that's great, but it's the one language I can't speak.” PeopleI CanSpeakLanguageDadMy DadAdoptedFinland Author:Nico
“I used to hate England because they ruled my country but I am happy they gave us the game of cricket, which they can't play very well, and the English language, which I can't speak very well.” WellsI CanCountryPlayUsedHateGamesSpeakLanguageEnglandCricketEnglish Language Author:Kapil Dev
“I'm bugged because I can't believe I can't speak every language there is. But I feel I can when I sit and am with somebody, and I can dance for them. Because dance is dialogue without language.” FeelsBelieveI CanSpeakLanguageDialogueBecause I Can Author:Chita Rivera
“I do swear a lot, but the advantage is that having played abroad, I can choose a different language from the referee's.” I CanDifferentLanguageAdvantageSwearRefereeDifferent Languages Author:Jurgen Klinsmann
“I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more.” FeelsI CanLanguage Author:Antony Sher
“Now I see why reading was illegal for black people during slavery. I discover that I think in words. The more words I know, the more things I can think about. My vocab and thoughts grow together like the stem and petals of a flower. Reading was illegal because if you limit someone's vocab, you limit their thoughts. They can't even think of freedom because they don't have the language to.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsI CanTogetherReadingLanguageGrowsBlackFlowerLimitsSlaveryIllegalBlack PeopleStemPetals Author:M. K. Asante
“I can read more languages than I speak! I speak French and Italian - not very well, alas, but I can get by. I read German and Spanish. I can read Latin (I did a lot of Latin at school.) I'm afraid I do not speak any African languages, although I can understand a little bit of the Zulu-related languages, but only a tiny bit.” WellsLittlesI CanSchoolSpeakLanguageBitsLittle BitTinyRelatedLatinItalianAlasI Can ReadSpeaks French Author:Alexander McCall Smith
“I am a writer and the greatest compliment I can get is to know that I've contributed language to the culture, that I've defined something, given it a name. So I think that is one of the great things a writer can do.” ThinkingKnowsI CanCultureNamesLanguageGivenCan DoGreat ThingsDefinedCompliment Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.” IfsI CanLanguageMy OwnHonestyPaintOneselfAdmireBeing TrueRuthlessTrue To Oneself Author:Scott Kahn
“I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings.” MenWantI CanStoriesLanguageWhitePaintingWhite Man Author:Allen Sapp