American Quote by Dave Chappelle

As an individual, and I have to say as a person of color, the thing about being an 'other' in America is I really…

— John Ridley

I am black, so with my writing and my voice, you get that kind of dialect.

— Steven Caple Jr

All our hiring staff are trained to interview in English. They're trained to look for Westernized segments because we deal with global customers.

— Azim Premji

The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.

— C. C. H. Pounder

I talk bilingual.

— Luis Fonsi

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

I speak Dutch, German, French, and English and have acted in all of those languages, but I love the American experience.

— Sylvia Hoeks

I speak African. I can even speak Italian.

— Frank Bruno

Part of what our problem as blacks in America is that we don't claim that. Partly, you see, because of the linguistic environment in…

— August Wilson

“I am not 'African American' —I am black American.”

— John McWhorter

I can speak only as a white guy.

— Skip Bayless

It's always seemed to me that black people's grace has been with what they do with language. In Lorrain, Ohio, when I was a…

— Toni Morrison