I can Quote by Milo

Language is me, in a way. Really, I feel it.

— Orhan Pamuk

I think it's cool to do stuff in a different language. Basically, I learned English through listening to rap. A lot of people think…

— Wyclef Jean

Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I…

— John McWhorter

I speak from the heart. Certain people follow lyricists and people that put words on a dictionary together, and this and that. I'm more…

— French Montana

I've never had the impulse for someone else to translate me into my own language. My impulse has always been to translate someone else…

— Idra Novey

“A native tongue, in my opinion, isn't the language spoken where you were born or the first language you learned; it's a language that…

— Adi Alsaid

Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly…

— Casey Miller

Language is the most beautiful and destructive thing because it allows you to express yourself, but it totally confuses everything.

— Nate Lowman

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

— Saul Williams

Language makes culture, and we make a rotten culture when we abuse words.

— Cynthia Ozick

I originally wanted to embrace the imagery and forthrightness of rap music. There are some interesting, dynamic voices in rap. But I find most…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

— Laura Marling