Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!

We can appreciate each other's languages. And the question of being uncomfortable about our languages would go away.

A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.

Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.

I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in prison for working in English. So really, in prison I started thinking more seriously about the relation between language and power.

Many people do not know that Jesus did not speak Latin or English or Hebrew; he spoke Aramaic. But nobody knows that language. So we're talking about the Bible itself being a translation of a translation of a translation. And, in reality, it has affected people's lives in history.

What is translated from English and into English - and in what quantities - is a question of power.