Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Insight

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs. I again realized that we were not different people with separate languages; we were one people, with different tongues.

Nelson Mandela
Long Walk To Freedom

1 comment:

Combs said...

It's because of statements like that, that I want to go into ethnomusicology. It's a wonderful thought, thanks for sharing.
A.T.H.