Language Quotes

In terms of language, English is very dominant vis-Ã-vis African language. That in itself is a power relationship – between languages and communities – because the English language is a determinant of the ladder to achievement.

The language of the Church Of England still reflects that Victorian time.

People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It’s because you feel it; you see it in someone’s body language.

I love rearranging words and destroying language and the established forms of art and music/challenging the reasoning of others.

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

In English every word can be verbed.

Donald Trump came along and spoke in a language that speaks directly to a portion of the Republican base with what they want to hear. I don`t think that he actually has a very significant ideology.

I don’t know that I would have the courage to come over to a new country where the religion is different, the language is different, where I don’t have any money.

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too.