Sandra Cisneros Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Two, Interesting, Culture

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. September 28, 2006.

• My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I think they're flowers, or bridges.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Flower, Thinking, Knives

• The older you get, the more power you have with language as a writer, which means that you have to be extra responsible for what you say, whether it's in print or in front of a microphone, because those words can go out and kill or go out and plant seeds for peace.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Mean, Language, Plant

• You meditate and then you can put on your pajamas, or you can imagine you're wearing your pajamas, and you talk about your piece of writing in the language you would use if you were wearing your pajamas and you were seated at a table with your very good friend. And you wouldn't have to get all dressed up or clean up the table.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Writing, Good Friend, Use

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

• That's why it's important to be multilingual, because it teaches you so much about your own language.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Important, Language, Teach

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

• A second person that's come to my life very recently, and I'm thankful for it, is Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of the Nonviolent Communication Organization. He has all these books about how we can use our language nonviolently to help create peace. He's using a lot of Buddhism too, but he's helping me to think about language.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Book, Communication, Buddhism

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

• My book would come out in one language, then it would come out in another language, then it would come out in One City, One Read, and I was always being called away from my desk.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Book, Cities, Language

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

• The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself. It's like being blind. You aren't less of a person, but you're missing out on wonderful things.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Missing, Language, Speak

  "Sandra Cisneros writes fable for grieving grown-ups" by Cindy Y. Rodriguez, www.cnn.com. October 23, 2012.

• When you become a driver, they don't tell you that you have to switch languages. The drivers have their own language and they don't tell you that as girls. How am I supposed to know that blinking light means something? There are all these little languages that you have to know, but you don't know.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Girl, Mean, Light

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

• Spanish is a poetic language, in particular the Spanish of Mexico which has a wonderful animistic attitude you might not see in the Spanish of the peninsula. I think it has to do with the indigenous way of looking at nature.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Attitude, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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