Mamata Banerjee Quotes

One of the biggest problems is - you know, I've got some Hispanic friends - is that a lot of those folks that don't know English, is primarily because they don't even know Spanish. They don't even know their own language.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

Should people working in our country speak English? Yes, they should.

I think that in the past there has been a kind of cultural resistance to Latin because it's associated with elitism.

I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.

Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.

To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more.

Speaking Spanish isn't a benefit in Hollywood.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual, but it is a curse for a society to be bilingual… A society must be able to talk amongst itself.

Language has historically stood as a barrier for some voters seeking to participate in the electoral process.

Bilingualism is a great asset for any individual, but it has perilous consequences for a nation.

It's one thing to be writing in South or Latin America, where, except for Brazil, every country, however small and hard to find on a map, speaks Spanish, but quite another to be writing in, say, Hungary, a landlocked nation of 10 million people, with a language that very few people outside Hungary can read or speak.

Just because I don't speak English with an accent anymore doesn't mean that I'm better than the people who do.

I think Britain is a bit class-ridden. People tend to be judged by how rounded their vowels are.

We were working class, and you don't lose that. Later on, I bolted on media middle class... and now people like me are in the House of Lords.

Class has always been Tom Wolfe's subject, and I suspect the reason for much of the disfavor in which he is held.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

One of the nice things about the United States is that, wherever you go, people speak the same language. So native New Yorkers can move to San Francisco, Houston, or Milwaukee and still understand and be understood by everyone they meet. Right? Well, not exactly. Or, as a native New Yorker might put it, 'Wrong!'

Eccentricity is usually owned by middle-class and upper-class people. If you are working class and eccentric, then you're just mad.

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

In the local state school I attended in England, I saw and heard far more awareness of where a person stood in the social hierarchy than I had ever heard stateside.

Bilingualism used to have an undeservedly bad reputation; then it got an undeservedly exalted one.

I've found that one's language abilities, especially for Korean kids like me, get frozen at the age you immigrated. So I've always associated Korea with being a child and being infantilized through my inability to speak.

You can't be an American if you don't speak English. Our public schools should be mandated to teach all children in English.