The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
Source: Interview in Writers at Work (Eighth Series, ed. by George Plimpton, 1988).
-- Derek Walcott, (Jan 23 1930-2017), West Indian poet, playwright; He was noted for works that explore the Caribbean cultural experience; received the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1992