Frantz Fanon Quotes

Language and identity are so fundamentally intertwined. You peel back all the layers in terms of what we wear and what we eat and all the things that mark us, and in the end, what we have are our words.

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.

I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world.

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.

If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.

Everybody wants to say who they are and where they're from. And the easiest and cheapest and most universal way of doing that is through their accent.

Language is very important to me.

Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with

Language is the most elementary aspect to our humanness, probably. In addition to that, it's the embodiment, it's the apotheosis of the human experience, it's the way we summarize ourselves.

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

Language is a social art.

Language allows one to crack the code of culture

I think music is a great way of helping people to get to know a country's culture.

My music was about travelling a lot and connecting with other people, and English is the voice of travelling.

I think in French, but I get angry in Spanish.

My mother introduced to me as a child the world of language: the way in which translation can be a system by which you can understand others.

Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.

Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

One doesn't live in a country, one lives in a language.

Language is also a place of struggle.