Lang auto Biography

Find your language and voice is never easy and I think this is never truly accomplished in a persons life. No one can ever always speak there voice no matter how bad you want to some times you have to hold your tongue and watch what you say. Language is the most powerful tool people have word’s can be the strongest thing they have when they don’t have anything else. When a person can’t speak what they want to say then they truly are not experiencing the process of finding there voice. I’m a person who holds no boundaries I always speak what I say and when I say something I mean it I don’t know where I learned it from but I feel as if i was just born with it.

Ever since I was a little boy I could always remember not taking no for an answer of making sure I get the right answered and if someone was being mean to me or one of my friends I would always be the one to speak up and give them a piece of my mind and voice. One vivid memory I have of me finding my voice was in kindergarten. It was my 2nd month of school and you would think by the 2nd month of school the teacher would know everyone name with a class of 8 kids well she didn’t. I would raise my hand every day in her class and she would say yes Robert. My teacher did this for the first 2 month’s of school but I never really said anything it bothered me but it wasn’t something to get upset over. But on this day when she said Robert I just didn’t know what to say or do. I just looked at her are eyes meant and were locked togthere like a key and a door. I just said my names ROBBIE. Something happen to me that day that I will remember for the rest of my life I was able to speak the words I didn’t dare say for 2 month’s and it was the best feeling ever I was able to say what I wanted. It’s very powerful being able to speak with out boundaries and not letting anyone hold you back. In English class we have been reading a bunch of different essays related to language and being able to speak different ones and how that can have a negative and positive affect on the lives of those individuals.

In English class we were reading an excerpt from an essay which was called “this is the oppressors language/ yet I need it to talk to you”: Language, a place of struggle by Bell Hooks. Bell Hooks brings up some very interesting and new perspectives in this essay it’s very different and has a lot of mixed views on language in America.  This quote shows her views towards language in the united states. “In the United States it is the mask which hides the loss of so many tongues, all those sounds of diverse native communities we will never hear, the speech of the Gullah, Yiddish, and so many other unremembered tongues...”  I can’t say I agree in full with the ideas that Bell Hook presnts in this essay. I feel that the United States is one of those rare places where you almost have thousands of different languages all over the country but it’s truly up to the natives of those languages to keep there language going and to teach there children there language. Now a days different languages are truly a thing people marvel over. We don’t have the same kind of consciousness that we us to have if you spoke a different language. People back in the days had to deal with prejudice and racism some due to the language they spoke but now that we are past that we are re kindling are love for language and learning new one’s and old one’s.

language is a very powerful tool that has been used for good and bad through out the world we all have the power of speech some people may not recognize it yet. Language can be used to oppress people but it can also be used to set the same people free, It can be used to speak out against the wrongs of society and the social oppression other people can cause by saying your language is the wrong one. There is no wrong or right language the gift to speak is amazing in it’s self so Cherish the language you have and respect the language that other people speak.