Our Languages Quotes
- The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of… — Salman Rushdie
- They have our bundles split open in museums / our dresses & shirts at auctions / our languages on tape / our stories in locked… — Chrystos
- It is time to ask: are we Aborigines a serious people? … Do we have the seriousness necessary to maintain our languages, traditions and knowledge?… — Noel Pearson
- English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will… — Abdul Kalam
- Disease [is] as one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease to… — Susanna Kaysen
- Don't separate the mind from the body. Don't separate even character - you can't. Our unit of existence is a body, a physical, tangible, sensate… — Susanna Kaysen
- As artists, we must not go down to the level of the masa; we should bring them up, intellectualize our languages, create classics out of… — F. Sionil Jose