Understand Said Quote by Nnedi Okorafor

We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else.

— Carrie Fisher

“The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn.”

— Scott Anderson

“trouble is, these people don’t understand their own culture,” said”

— Geraldine Brooks

“Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.”

— Martin Luther King Jr

“Only a self-taught man can teach others”

— girish kohli

“You'll say things all wrong but they'll at once become American ways of saying things. You won't know shit but it'll right away become…

— Salman Rushdie

“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”

— Aristotle

These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live.

— Henry Ford

“Sometimes, we can learn the most from people who aren’t trying to teach.”

— Mark Caster

“no human culture is inaccessible to someone who makes the effort to understand, to learn, to inhabit another world.”

— Anonymous

“However, why does it so often fail to dawn on them that if we’re smart enough to understand their instructions, we might well also…

— Naoki Higashida

“it is difficult to understand that not everyone in the world wants to be an American.”

— Bruce Cumings