Chuck Berry Quotes

I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it.

I want to be open to the kids who only speak Spanish, the kids who speak only Spanglish, and the kids who don't even speak Spanish at all.

It would be good if teachers could genuinely understand that black English is not mistakes, it's just different English, and that what you want to do is add an additional dialect to black students' repertoire rather than teaching them out of what's thought of as a bad habit, like sloppy posture or chewing with your mouth open.

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.

I'm about as monolingual as you come, but nevertheless, I have a variety of different languages at my command, different styles, different ways of talking, which do involve different parameter settings.

I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.

Make no mistake: one is not a better Quebecer because one speaks French. One is not less of a Quebecer because one speaks English. We all share the same rights.

Part of my joy as a singer is to give gifts to people, and one way I try to connect to them is to add something in French or German or whatever.

When I go to Colombia or Mexico, I speak Spanish. When I go to Italy, I speak Italian. When I'm in Germany, I speak German. Would I expect them to speak English in these countries? No. I mean, great if they do, but no. Would I be offended if in Spain they say we speak Spanish? No. If I was an immigrant there, no.

I don't think people should be afraid of portraying people with accents, especially Asian accents.

I enjoy singing in different languages, be it Telugu or Bengali. I would like to sing in Malayalam too.

As a candidate, I intend to let everyone hear my message, including the many who can express their love of country in a different language.

Republicans who criticize the use of two languages, I think, make a great mistake.

Looking back, I think I tried to be too eclectic. Sometimes I'd sing thirty songs, and fifteen of them were not in English.

There's no room for failure performing [stand-up] for a black audience. If you don't get them right away it's tough winning them back even if you're doing top-notch material. If you didn't win them right when you walked out there, it's tough.

Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.

If we were multilingual, imagine how much you would learn about your own culture, about the sensibilities of what's important in your own culture.

I think, as a white person, I do not want to speak for a black person.

I'm thinking about American votes and American - all Americans, black or white have to be concerned about what's happening in the world.

When you have something in black and white, you can deal with it quicker.

Each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other - male in female, female in male, white in black, and black in white. We are part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it.

If God had so wished, he would have made all Indians speak with one language ... the unity of India has been and shall always be a unity in diversity.

I would start off with a lively rag, then would come a ballad, followed by a comedy song and a novelty number, and finally, the hot song. In this way, I left the stage with the audience laughing their heads off.

Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to remove it and you kill the patient.