If I spoke no English, my world would be limited to the Japanese-speaking community, and no matter how talented I was, I could never do business, seek employment or take part in public affairs outside that community.

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

The traditional educational theory is to the effect that the way to bring up children is to keep them innocent (i.e., believing in biological, political, and socioeconomic fairy tales) as long as possible ... that students should be given the best possible maps of the territories of experience in order that they may be prepared for life, is not as popular as might be assumed.

The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us.

There is only one thing age can give you, and that is wisdom.

I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language.

McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor.