Quotes About Culture

Mucho de lo suyo pudo desmoronarse, menos las cosas que le dieron identidad.

Lidia, this is how America has to cook Italian." And with this wonderful book, she showed us all how.

The cooking of Italy is really the cooking of regions that long antedate the Italian nation, regions that until 1861 were part of sovereign and usually hostile states, sharing few cultural traditions and no common spoken language

Italians love to grow and eat vegetables, and in each of the twenty regions of the country, there is a favorite one.

We're living in very strange times. The idea of being popular for being outrageous is coming from the leadership,

Interesante como a divisão de classes cria rituais próprios, que aumentam a distância entre elas.

Imagine a world where all religious groups can simply freeze their beliefs and not have to interact with the culture.)

Here people was once used to be honourable: now they are all bad; they have kept one goodness: that they are greatest boozers.

If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it.

The world today is indebted to us for the benefits of civilization. They stole our arts and sciences from Africa. Then why should we be ashamed of ourselves?

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots.

Do not remove the kinks from your hair - remove them from your brain.

The Negro will have to build his own industry, art, sciences, literature, and culture before the world will stop to consider him.

the Bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things.

this is a culture that does not worship youth and cheap television celebrity. Those tribesmen treasure, above all things, knowledge, experience, and wisdom.

hotels and trinket shops and storefront museums and all

He had a theory going about cities, that the dominant industry of the town filtered into every level of the place, from the architecture to the discourse.

beginning. Not just in Chicago

Because artists are more dangerous than murderers. The most prolific serial killer might have dozens of victims, but poets can lay low entire generations.

I spent so much of my life on the outside that I began to doubt that I would ever truly be in with any one people, any one place, and one tribe. But Harlem is big enough, diverse enough, scrappy enough, old enough, and new enough to encompass all that I am and all that I hope to be. After all that traveling, I am, at last, home.

Monsters lurk in every culture's life blood – the history of the world is as much the history of its monsters as its angels, and who is the more fascinating: Elizabeth Bathory and her blood-bathing, or Mother Teresa and her poor? Vlad ?epe? and his impalings, or Saint Francis and his birds? I wish I could give you better answers, I really do, but monsters throng about us; they always have.

The dregs of Romulus.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

There were poets before Homer.