Country Quote by Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I'm going to try to continue to try to speak English because I live in the United States.

— Yoel Romero

Writing in English made me become a foreigner in my own country. It helped me create the necessary distance to my homeland.

— Hallgrimur Helgason

I have an English family and I've lived in England for years.

— Daryl Hall

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in…

— Thornton Wilder

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left…

— Theodore Bikel

No bum that can't speak poifect English oughta stay in this country...oughta be de-exported the hell outta here!

— Archie Bunker

But I am not allowed to speak to foreigners and I am not allowed to leave the country. So I'm not so happy.

— Mordechai Vanunu

If your country is wiped off the map and your language is banned, if your literature has to serve a cause, it becomes, however…

— Olga Tokarczuk

To change your language you must change your life.

— Derek Walcott

The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel…

— Jomo Kenyatta

Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.

— Adrienne Rich

I don't have any intentions to return to England. I would go back if I could return as a free person. I don't want…

— Ronald Biggs