Quotes About Culture

My experience has to be funnelled through a black experience or a white experience, or it doesn't exist, because that's how we're going to deal with the world.

A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find.

Getting to know athletes from all over the planet is a big part of the Olympic experience.

I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture.

Having a white parent undoubtedly makes for a different childhood experience than having two black parents.

I'm interested in a lot of the languages that drive our culture. I'm interested in user experience as language or how societal malaise takes root.

I think that [Eddie Murphy's famous "White Like Me"] is probably the first time I thought, "Oh. Being black is different. That is a totally different experience."

In Europe you learn not to fail, and in America you fail to learn. You need failure.

If you find it difficult to accept failure then you simply won't get any innovation because employees will be too frightened

America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.

When it comes to continual improvement programs, the biggest mistake is a failure to launch, the biggest hurdle is culture.

In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.

In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.

Today's marginalization of Christianity is a direct result of our failure to understand our faith as a total worldview.

Today secular faith is ebbing, and it is the apostles of unbelief who are left stranded on the beach.

The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.

America has become politically and culturally agnostic, and the Christian faith in the minds of many has come to represent intolerance.

Our vitality, and the vitality of each nation, rests on the sincerity and depth of the faith in the ideas which it announces, or pronounces.

Filipinos are called to be outstanding missionaries of faith in Asia

Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.

Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.

We worship the aesthetic, but we do not have faith in it.

I am half-Jewish, and yet really hadn't been brought up within the Jewish faith. So I had felt culturally Jewish, if that's possible, without really understanding it.

Every faith has its story; every faith has its roots.