Alice Childress Quotes

There is no right language or wrong language any more than there are right or wrong clothes.

The classical scholars have kept alive the tradition of the superiority of the ancient languages -- a kaleidoscopic mass of suffixes and prefixes, supposed to represent an infinite shading of meaning. It is a character they share with the Ojibway and the Zulu.

I mean, but obviously, in people's eyes, it still - it can still link Islam to terrorism. I mean, why does it make a difference that they're white?

Islamaphobia is the only form of racism which is socially acceptable.

Language is at the root of Quebec nationalism.

William the Conqueror had so great an abhorrence of the English language, that he commanded all the laws and law-proceedings to be in French; and even the children in school were taught the first elements of grammar and letters in French and not in English.

There are men of eighteen different languages; they are scattered here and there upon the [Hudson] river.

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.

I did hold the language laws of Quebec up to ridicule because they are officious and ridiculous.

The force of prejudice against marriage between black and white was such that no one would dare to brave it. It is not the legal penalty which is feared but a condemnation a thousand times more terrible.

Much of the prejudice against Islam in the West stems from a lack of understanding of the true nature of Islam as a religion professed by 1.4 billion people in the world. Westerners tend to view other peoples and other cultures only from the perspective of Western benchmarks and philosophy.

I was surprised by some of my French colleagues who immediately assumed that because I spoke English with an American accent, that, therefore, you must be a supporter of whoever is the current president of the United States. There seems to be this widespread feeling that, 'Oh, American accent - therefore, you like cowboy boots.'

I navigate different cultures daily, and I understand how people can make false assumptions because of their lack of interaction with the cultures I find myself in. But if they don't frequent these spaces much, how can they rush to judgment?

So often, blackness is seen in a negative light.

President Trump is mentally incapable of imagining the humanity of anyone who looks different from him or hails from a different nation.

South Central's been portrayed so many different ways in the media for however long.

Going into a room and saying, 'I'm a black lesbian' - it's a strike against you.

When an American person hears you speak a different language, you're automatically the bad guy.

I've had tweets questioning whether I really did go to university because surely I would have lost my accent if I did; a letter suggesting, very politely, that I get correction therapy; and an email saying I should get back to my council estate and leave the serious work to the clever folk.

What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.

That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.

We are taught to be suspicious, especially of anyone who might not look like us or share our beliefs.

It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance.

There are many languages in the world; in meaning all are the same. If you break the cups, water will be unified and will flow together.