Achievement Quote by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Every language has influences and is an influence.

— Amos Oz

Languages are the pedigree of nations.

— Samuel Johnson

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the…

— Louise Erdrich

I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in prison for…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes…

— Anne Sullivan Macy

Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.

— S. I. Hayakawa

English does have a larger vocabulary than other languages because of its history as the primary language of science and its global reach.

— David Crystal

I feel that the English language will be able to carry the weight of my African experience. But it will have to be a…

— Chinua Achebe

“If there's any interaction between genes and languages, it is often languages that influence genes, since linguistic differences between populations lessen the chance of…

— Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

“African languages one third of all the languages of the world,”

— Thomas Sowell

Writing in African languages became a topic of discussion in conferences, in schools, in classrooms; the issue is always being raised - so it's…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Language is the leading principle which unites or separates the tribes of mankind.

— Edward Gibbon