Ngugi wa Thiong'o Quotes

A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?

Hanif Kureishi
- Work
- Real
- Me
With 'True Grit,' the language was very specific, as is Shakespeare. You couldn't really improvise, nor would you really ever have to. I never felt the need to. It was all so beautifully written, and it was all right there.

Hailee Steinfeld
- True
- Language
- Grit
Yiddish, originally, in Eastern Europe was considered the language of children, of the illiterate, of women. And 500 years later, by the 19th century, by the 18th century, writers realized that, in order to communicate with the masses, they could no longer write in Hebrew. They needed to write in Yiddish, the language of the population.

Ilan Stavans
- Women
- Children
- Language
It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this.

Gael Garcia Bernal
- People
- World
- Live
Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.

Edmund Morgan
- People
- Words
- English
A stylist understands our body language; they know what works and what doesn't. I'm happy this concept has caught on in the South film industry.

Rakul Preet Singh
- Happy
- Language
- Body