Duke Ellington Quotes

Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another lashed, another plain; but every man has a doublet; so every man has a religion. We differ about the trimming.

It is beautiful that there are three hundred religions in the world; more are needed. ... Each person should have his own religion - there should be as many religions as there are people!

Different religions meet the needs of different people

That's part of that thing of transcending languages. Every person will have their own language.

The world has wanted me to speak differently than I speak. You know, I speak like my mom; I speak like, you know, like the whitest white dude; I speak like a Def Comedy Jam comedian doing an impression of a white guy.

People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.

When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.

We will never have "a" Chicano English or Spanish because of regional differences. But I think that because of our bilingual history, we'll always be speaking a special kind of English and Spanish. What we do have to do is fight for the right to use those two languages in the way that it serves us.

I don't pronounce all my words exactly how they do on the BBC. I am who I am.

One thing I wish I'd been told in school is that my language is valid.

Human beings are free to worship anyone or anything.

I see comments occasionally about the way I speak but it goes straight over my head. You speak the way you speak and it is a silly thing to judge someone on.

Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican.

There are as many different religions as there are individuals.

You may be Catholic or Protestant or Buddhist or Baptist or Muslim or Mormon or Jewish or Jain, or you have no religion at all. I'm not interested in your religious background. Because God did not create the universe for us to have religion. He came for us to have a relationship with him.

I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.

Having an international voice is not really about whether we speak Persian or any other language.

My language is the sum total of myself.

The diversity of language alienates man from man

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

I think you have to find your own language. You find your footing with it, and you start to express it in certain ways.

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.

There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world. In every culture, in every language there is expressive play, expressive word play, there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.

As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.