Quotes About Culture

The cinema is, after all, the most timid of the arts. It never sets trends, it merely reflects them. The harm has been done long before the movies set cameras on the scene. Warring teen-age gangs antedated Rebel Without A Cause , at least in the United States; and the most infamous teen-age killer in Philippine history operated during the liberation times, long before James Dean was heard of.

She was privileged enough to feel at home anywhere, and to equate squalor with authenticity.

Professional mourners may shed real tears.

She knew them by their thick woven cloaks, their hanging hair and beards, and their Anglisc voices: words drumming like apples spilt over wooden boards, round, rich, stirring. Like her father's words, and her mother's, and her sister's. Utterly unlike Onnen's otter-swift British or the dark liquid gleam of Irish. Hild spoke each to each. Apples to apples, otter to otter, gleam to gleam, though only when her mother wasn't there.

The French, than whom - it's a very than-whom people all round - none can be more vacuously orotund, are (the same ones) obligingly terse. On occasion.

I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. It took seven languages to make me; it would be nice if I could have spoken just one.

It took seven languages to make me; it would have been nice if I could have spoken just one. But I couldn't, so he leaned down and kissed me.

Once or twice a year I attended the English Romantic conferences held throughout Europe, brief gatherings perhaps not dissimilar in feeling for the participants than the feeling Jews have when they get off the plane in Israel: the relief of at last being surrounded on all sides by your own kind--the relief and the horror.

Black Poetry is not for Black People…it is for everybody

I'm into my Black Thing And it's filling all My empty spots

We cannot leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people

We in the Black Arts movement, which wasn't really a movement but a group of people who had similar objectives...

The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things is the enemy, patriarchy in medicine, patriarchy in schools, or in literature.

I mean, that the New World black woman needs a little of the Old World black woman in her, and the other way around. I don't think that they are completely fulfilled without the other.

You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

It is an artist's duty to reflect the times.

En las comunidades judías siempre hay un extranjero. Y el año venidero el anfitrión será el huésped.

Rob dio al niño el nombre judío de Mirdin ben Jesse

This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars—they would think the country has gone insane.

Look, part of the whole technique of disempowering people is to make sure that the real agents of change fall out of history, and are never recognized in the culture for what they are. So it's necessary to distort history and make it look as if Great Men did everything - that's part of how you teach people they can't do anything, they're helpless, they just have to wait for some Great Man to come along and do it for them.

Of course all such conclusions about appropriate actions against the rich and powerful are based on a fundamental flaw: This is us, and that is them. This crucial principle, deeply embedded in Western culture, suffices to undermine even the most precise analogy and the most impeccable reasoning.

These are fashionable people who call themselves philosophers.

the way they put it, we as a society have decided not to modify the society but to modify the children.