The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
Maybe my job on this planet is to make the Asian accent sexy.
I wanted to write for all children, even those kids who might see language as a threatening thing, even if English is their second language.
Baahubali... ' has been accepted widely amongst Hindi cinema-goers. So this shows that language is becoming less important.
If an offer comes my way, I would love to sing in every Indian language. It will be like an ode to my fans from every corner of the country.
Whether the film is a Hindi film or in a South Indian language, I don't think it matters.
English is a stretch language; one size fits all.
'Negro' can refer to anyone with dark hair as well as dark skin, and I've been used to the word being used in Spanish in this way all my life.
There is no such thing as an ugly accent, like there's no such thing as an ugly flower.
Hindi film industry makes film for the rest of the world. Tamil films are watched by Malay people. When a film is not bound by a language, why should an actor be?
It's maybe a better thought to change the perception of an accent than to avoid it all together.
Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.
I wanted to have a book that showed there's no one way to sound black. I wanted to tell teens that the way you speak is okay; you're good the way you are.
