Quotes About Culture

and, let us not forget, the culmination of nearly five thousand years of continuous Chinese history.

Americans are an honest people, we expect a fair deal. I know that a lot of other cultures used to think that was naïve and even childish, but it's one of our most sacred principles. To see Uncle Sam going back on his word, revoking people's private lives, revoking their freedom…

I confessed I knew nothing about art—she based her view on a saying of her mother's that anyone can respond to a work of art except the cultured philistine. "That's very kind of your mother!" I said.

Here is a scene that happens in Brazil thousands of times each day: It's early morning. Time for young Marcos to leave for school. As he gathers his books and heads for the door, he stops by his father's chair. He looks into his father's face. "Benção, Pai?" (Blessing, Father?) Marcos asks. The father raises his hand. "Deus te abençoe, meu filho" (God bless you, my son), he says.

In America my mother has eyes as strong as boulders, never once skittering off a face, but she has not learned to place decorations and phonograph needles, nor has she stopped seeing land on the other side of the oceans. Now her eyes include the relatives in China, as they once included my father smiling and smiling in his many western outfits, a different one for each photograph that he sent from America. (1983: 59)

To make my waking life American-normal, I turn on the lights before anything untoward makes an appearance. I push the deformed into my dreams, which are in Chinese, the language of impossible stories. Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.

Perhaps I made him up, and what I once had was not Chinese-sight at all but child-sight that would have disappeared eventually without such struggle.

The Chinese did not admire a bent back; goddesses and warriors stood straight. Still there must have been a marvelous freeing of beauty when a worker laid down her burden and stretched and arched.

in Sante Fe time is not that shallow. There one can go deep into a continuity as the pueblos and the culture they represent take one back at least eight hundred years through a single Indian dance. For a European that continuity is life-giving.

If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.

The needs of a society determine its ethics

When members of a society wish to secure that society's rich heritage they cherish their arts and respect their artists. The esteem with which we regard the multiple cultures offered in our country enhances our possibilities for healthy survival and continued social development.

America was aptly described by George Bernard Shaw, who said that it was 'the only country which had gone from barbarism to decadence without once passing through civilization.

I was going to look like one of the sweet little white girls who were everybody's dream of what was right with the world.

During these years in Stamps, I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare. He was my first white love.

She was white, wore perfume and smiled openly with the Negro customers, so I knew she was sophisticated. Other people's sophistication tended to make me nervous and I stayed shy of Louise.

Tan?mad???n?z bir kültürde ,hiçbir yenilik, tavsiye veya ders önermemeniz zekice olurdu. BilgeliÄŸin esas? sadelikte yat?yordu.

Without the presence and energy of art in our lives, we are capable of engaging in heartless activities without remorse and cruelties with clear consciences.

I left Sonny and walked around, rustling myself in the sounds and feasting my eyes on the tasty colors of my people.

13. "We survive in exact relationship to the dedication of our poets," (this page) Angelou says of Black people. Do you think that this is true of all cultures? 14. The book title is a reference to a poem by Paul Lawrence Dunbar. Why do you think that Angelou chose this title?

Ivonne said, You know white people are strange. I don't even know if they know why they do things. Ivonne had grown up in a small Mississippi town, and I, in a smaller town in Arkansas. Whites were as constant in our history as the seasons and as unfamiliar as affluence.

Whitefolks couldn't be people because their feet were too small, their skin too white and see-throughy, and they didn't walk on the balls of their feet the way people did - they walked on their heels like horses.

We French, we have never, never, never had slavery, so we feel we don't understand the American racism." Maybe

If we tolerate vulgarity, our future will sway and fall under a burden of ignorance.