Quotes About Culture

Despre dezvoltarea societ??ii: "Cu cât o societate ofer? mai pu?ine alternative, cu atât proiectele indivizilor decurg din cele câteva proiecte ?i norme oficial recunoscute, cu cât o societate las? loc mai pu?in loc pentru cultura îndoielii ?i pentru înv??ul dezv??ului, cu atât prostia ca încremenire în proiect câ?tig? teren ?i scleroza acelei societ??i este mai mare

My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.

A place is not really a place without a bookstore.

There ain't nobody in the world like book people. It's a business of gentlemen and gentlewomen.

The alternative to appropriation is a world in which artists only reference their own cultures.

Bookstores attract the right kind of folk.

Turns out I really like bookstores. You know, I meet a lot of people in my line of work. A lot of folks pass through Alice Island, especially in the summer. I've seen movie people on vacation and I've seen music people and newspeople, too. There ain't nobody in the world like book people. It's a business of gentlemen and gentlewoman.

The alternative to appropriation is a world where white European people make art about white European people, with only white European references in it. Swap African or Asian or Latin or whatever culture you want for European. A world where everyone is blind and deaf to any culture or experience that is not their own.

With his sweet, roundish face, light-colored eyes, and mix of white and Asian features, Sam looked almost exactly like an anime character. Astro Boy, or one of the wisecracking little brothers of manga.

mazer: The alternative to appropriation is a world in which artists only reference their own cultures.

they found themselves drawn to Japanese references over and over: the deceptively innocent paintings of Yoshitomo Nara; Miyazaki anime like Kiki's Delivery Service and Princess Mononoke; other, more adult anime like Akira and Ghost in the Shell, both of which Sam had loved; and of course, Hokusai's Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji series, the first of which is The Great Wave.

Sadie knew she didn't want to make a shooter, though, again, that was what tended to be popular. (She would never want to make a shooter—she, Dov's student to her core, found them disgusting, immoral, and the disease of an immature society;

You are American, Japanese, Korean and by being all of those things, you are not truly any of those things.

And yet, in K-town, he felt more Korean than he ever had before. Or to put a finer point on it, he felt more aware of the fact that he was a Korean and that that was not necessarily a negative or even a neutral fact about him. The awareness gave him pause: perhaps a funny-looking mixed-race kid could exist at the center of the world, not just on its periphery.

En stad är ingen stad utan en bokhandel (en variant ursprungligen från "Amerikanska gudar" av Neil Gaiman)

Guns are so fucking romantic to you Americans, because you don't know what it is to be at war and to be constantly under siege. It's truly pathetic.

The alternative to appropriation is a world in which artists only reference their own cultures.…a world where white european people only make art about white european people.

A world where everyone is blind and deaf to any culture or experience that is not their own. I hate that world, don't you? I'm terrified of that world , and I don't want to live in it. My dad, who I barely knew, was Jewish. My mom was an American-born Korean. I was raised by Korean immigrant grandparents in Koreatown, Los Angeles. And as any mixed race person will tell you--to be half of two things is to be whole of nothing.

Um lugar não é um lugar de verdade sem uma livraria.

Não tem ninguém no mundo como o pessoal dos livros. É um negócio de cavalheiros e damas.

En stad är ingen stad utan en bokhandel.

Lambiase and the first Ms. Fikry speak variations on the phrase, "A town isn't a town without a bookstore." Surely, they both must have read American Gods by Neil Gaiman.

Bah! Books are for nerds.

Ruby laughed. "Mrs. Morgan says people shouldn't use 'douchebag' in a negative way, because it turns a feminine hygiene product into a bad word. She says there's nothing wrong with a douchebag except that douching itself creates an unhealthy climate for a vagina.