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When you get into the third or fourth generation of Latino immigrants to the United States, you see the kids speaking more English than Spanish, and it's important that we don't lose our identity, our language. -- Thalia
As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central to a writer's craft - language and memory, which together make up an individual's identity. Alzheimer's makes a new character out of a familiar person. -- Charlie Pierce
Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced. -- Terry Eagleton
Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup. -- Mary Pipher
The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity. -- Amin Maalouf
Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity. -- John McGahern
The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal and grammatical speech which constitutes the various tongues of the Earth, and conceals the identity of image and logic in the minds of all men. -- George Edward Woodberry
I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In the coming decades, questions of identity, meaning cultural heritage, language, and religion will play a central role in politics. -- Samuel P. Huntington
Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity. -- John Ciardi
Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of language. -- Noah Webster
Any opinion writer worth his salt would have rejected the quaint notion that certain eternally aggrieved identity groups have exclusive linguistic rights to words in the English language. -- Ilana Mercer
Corporate identity specialists spend their time rechristening other companies, conducting a legal search and a linguistic search to insure that the name is not an insult in another language. -- Lisa Belkin

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