Quotes About Culture

He said to me one day in the second week of July, "Asher Lev, there are two ways of painting the world. In the whole history of art, there are only these two ways. One is the way of Greece and Africa, which sees the world as a geometric design. The other is the way of Persia and India and China, which sees the world as a flower. Ingres, Cézanne, Picasso paint the world as geometry. Van Gogh, Renoir, Kandinsky, Chagall paint the world as a flower.

In other words, there can be no real identity with our heritage until we know what our heritage really is. It is all hidden in our history, but we are ignorant of that history. We have been floating alone, basking blissfully in the sunny heritage of other peoples!

In ancient times African and Ethiopian meant the same thing: A Black

And I have been fortunate to escape what has been called "that form of snobbery which can accept the Literature of Entertainment in the Past, but only the Literature of Enlightenment in the Present.

Sometimes, when he wanted to hide or not outright lie, he chose to speak in English. He used to break into it when he argued with my mother, and it drove her crazy when he did and she would just plead, No, no! as though he had suddenly introduced a switchblade into a clean fistfight.

In America, he said, it's even hard to stay Korean.

You never really said anything about what you Koreans believe in she said. Staying out of trouble, I said.

Lelia had great trouble accepting this stunning ignorance of mine...She didn't understand that there weren't moments in our language when the woman's name could have naturally come out.

This must be the legendary Yankee rudeness

Eric was usually pretty Anglo-Saxon about sex.

I've got libraries in my blood.

Food, the southern offering on the altar of crisis.

Jack always had said you knew a person by the books they read . . . or didn't read.

other hand, New Orleans was a real

I love the South, don't get me wrong; but it does lag behind the times in social developments.

Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.

As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized.

Our filmmakers need to be true to their culture to gain appreciation at international level. Though I don't wish to generalize but do I feel that Indianness is lacking in most Indian films these days.

China lacks good science fiction, but not mediocre science fiction. Even so, the gap between Chinese and American sci-fi is still very large and it is most apparent in quality of the works.

I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.

I think Li Na and some other Chinese ladies have done so many amazing things for Asian tennis.

When Mrs. Bush was First Lady, she went all over the Mideast talking about breast cancer awareness and the need for early screening. She did this in places where the cultures prohibit such discussion or even detection efforts.

I am a Tambrahm born and brought up in Jamshedpur 20 years of my life, as my father worked for the Tatas there. My mother was a chief manager in the Bank of India and the only lady manager in Bihar in those times.

In America, if you say 'Chris de Burgh,' they won't have a clue, but they all know 'Lady in Red.'