An email from a colleague came with this quotation by Frantz Fanon:
I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. 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.
I am having trouble finding a copy of the film by Isaac Julien distributed by California Newsreel. Drats! :-/
http://newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0036