America Quote by Fannie Lou Hamer

Even though I couldn't speak English, there were many times that my black-American parents could read my mind and I could read theirs.

— Kola Boof

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

We've got to turn this backward thinking around where ignorance is championed over intelligence. Young black kids being ridiculed by their peers for getting…

— Spike Lee

Of the 6,000 languages spoken on Earth right now, 3,000 aren't spoken by the children. In one generation, we're going to halve our cultural diversity.

— Phil Borges

Babies all over the world are what I like to describe as citizens of the world. They can discriminate all the sounds of all…

— Suman Rai

I grew up with a single mum, an immigrant mum who couldn't speak the language, no money, three kids on her back, coming from…

— Ncuti Gatwa

My parents, in their 40s, moved to a different country, started a business, bought a house, didn't speak the language, raised two kids -…

— Jamie Chung

Plainly, children learn their language. I don't speak Swahili. And it cannot be that my language is 'an innate property of our brain.' Otherwise…

— Noam Chomsky

I've lived a lot with people who speak different languages.

— Alice Rohrwacher

I go to Uganda, I can't speak the language. In India, I'm black. In the black community, I'm dark-skinned. In America, I'm British.

— Daniel Kaluuya

Within the black community, roughly 60 percent of children are born to single moms. Moms don't have the emotional wherewithal to deal with their…

— Walter Dean Myers

I speak African. I can even speak Italian.

— Frank Bruno