Able Quote by Chinua Achebe

The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to…

— Chinua Achebe

It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an audience beyond…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but…

— William Labov

I was able to learn a new language - a new musical language is learning a new language, because it's so extremely different from…

— Ludwig Goransson

So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the…

— Zora Neale Hurston

The idea of an Afrikaner people as a cultural entity and religious group with a special language will be retained in South Africa as…

— P. W. Botha

The contribution of West African languages to Ebonics is absolutely infinitesimal. What it actually is is a very interesting hybrid of regional dialects of…

— John McWhorter

If I don't make heritage visible and the strength of mother tongue important for my grandchildren, it scares me that they might say in…

— Hugh Masekela

You get another person who operates only in an African language and there are many persons who operate only in African languages; he or…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Part of what makes a language 'alive' is its constant evolution. I would hate to think Britain would ever emulate France, where they actually…

— J. K. Rowling

I doubt that national languages will disappear. In fact, to some extent they're becoming more diverse, like in Europe.

— Noam Chomsky

This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways,…

— William Labov