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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.

I speak Hebrew excellently.

People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.

Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

I don't know Arabic. I can't speak or write it.

Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language.

It seems likely that Jesus, being a scholarly young man, learned some Hebrew, but that's conjecture. It's more likely that Jesus spoke some Greek, as this language dominated the region after the conquests of Alexander the Great in the fourth century.

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.