Language carries culture, and culture

carries, particularly through orature and

literature, the entire body of values by which

we come to perceive ourselves and our

place in the world. How people perceive

themselves affects how they look at their

culture, at their politics and at the social

production of wealth, at their entire

relationship to nature and to other

beings. Language is thus inseparable

from ourselves as a community of human

beings with a specific form and character, a

specific history, a specific relationship to the

world.

(Ngugi Wa Thiong’o)

(GREENBLATT, S. et al. The Norton Anthology. English literature. 8.ed., v.2. 2005. p.2538.)

Listen Mr. Oxford Don

Me not no Oxford don

Me a simple immigrant

From Clapham Common

I didn’t graduate

I immigrate

But listen Mr. Oxford don

I’m a man on de run

And a man on de run

Is a dangerous one

I ent have no gun

I ent have no knife

but mugging de Queen’s English

In the story of my life

I dont need no axe

(Jhon Agard)

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