JACQUES DERRIDA INTERVIEWS ORNETTE COLEMAN, 23 JUNE 1997

OC: Do you ever ask yourself if the language that you speak now interferes with
your actual thoughts? Can a language of origin influence your thoughts?

JD: It is an enigma for me. I cannot know it. I know that something speaks through me, a language that I don't understand, that I sometimes translate more or less easily into my "language." I am of course a French intellectual, I teach in French-speaking schools, but I have the impression that something is forcing me to do something for the French language...