When the time came for her to learn, all the knowledge from her past lives returned to her, as wild geese in autumn to the Ganga River.
Kalidasa, Kumarasambhava 1:30
To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.
Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks