Differences Quote by Courtney A. Kemp

My parents made it a point that, although I was born and raised in New York City, I needed to speak Spanish because they…

— Selenis Leyva

If I'm performing in the United States, I'm able to speak Spanglish, and the crowd comprehends. If I'm in the Dominican Republic or Puerto…

— Romeo Santos

We were doing the same thing. We will never have "a" Chicano English or Spanish because of regional differences. But I think that because…

— Ana Castillo

American histories were the same; they had these mad ideas about how Parliament worked, or what people really meant when they said A, B,…

— Amanda Foreman

When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought…

— Viggo Mortensen

I speak pretty fluent American, though I do so with a strong British accent, and I love America: The scale and the variety of…

— Laurie Graham

“If England had not used the services of privateers and pirates during its long struggle with Spain, there is some likelihood that people today…

— Anonymous

The New York voice reflects its diversity, its foreignness, and, inevitably, the sense of superiority New Yorkers feel or come to feel. It says,…

— Marya Mannes

When I was growing up, the Spanish-speaking world was Balkanized. We were isolated. We didn't know what was happening in cultural terms in Ecuador,…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I grew up in New York in an English-speaking environment.

— Erik Estrada

We wanted the language to feel fresh, fun, and rock solid.

— James Frank

I spoke Spanish on the street and was told to go back from where I came from, even though I was born in New…

— Rachel Zegler