Quotes About Culture

You have to wonder about people who worship a killer." Jack turned to Finley. "What the hell is this world coming to?

A bonnet costs twenty dollars, and implies a shawl and gown to match. A bonnet to one wife, with shawl and gown to match, implies the like to every other wife." The man paused, shook his head ruefully and concluded: "This taste for female finery is breaking up our Mormon homes. Brigham Young may soon be the only man in Salt Lake City rich enough to clothe a dozen wives."28

The Great Spirit raised both the white man and the Indian," Red Cloud said. "I think he raised the Indian first. He raised me in this land and it belongs to me. The white man was raised over the great waters, and his land is over there. Since they crossed the sea, I have given them room. There are now white people all about me. I have but a small spot of land left. The Great Spirit told me to keep it.

The whites told only one side. Told it to please themselves. Told much that is not true. Only his own best deeds, only the worst deeds of the Indians, has the white man told. —YELLOW WOLF OF THE NEZ PERCÉ

by the members of the Hotamitanio, or Dog Soldier Society.

One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk. —TASHUNKA WITKO (CRAZY HORSE)

One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.' - Tashunka Witko (Crazy Horse)

Women have a lot of power in private life. There are many men who would say, 'Hey, women already rule my life.' But with women, more is more. The more there are, the more the world gets used to seeing them. We change the culture. We begin to expand options and lead and manage.

Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there - there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood.

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.

Unlike other religions in the world the Hindu religion does not claim any one prophet; it does not worship any one god; it does not subscribe to any one dogma; it does not believe in any one philosophic concept; it does not follow any one set of religious rites or performances; in fact, it does not appear to satisfy the narrow traditional features of any religion or creed. It may broadly be described as a way of life and nothing more.

Second, withdraw from shaming others. This behavior is a disguise for you. You think that if you gossip, tear people down, try to look superior, or in any other way go on the attack, you will find protection from your own vulnerability. In reality, all you are doing is immersing yourself in the culture of shame. Step away; you can't afford to be there any longer.

The kindest slur Italians routinely faced was to be called garlic eaters, but the usual remarks were far uglier.

The thing that [Afrikans] must remember is that everything [White people] produce has a political purpose.

serenading us with "Cielito Lindo." How odd, isn't that Spanish?

Lately, when asked, I have tended to say that I'm Mexican. I like the word because it still makes so many people flinch.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

L'adoption de l'anglais a, évidemment, entraîné une critique importante : celle de privilégier la langue du colonisateur au détriment de celle des colonisés. Cette accusation a couru tout au long des décennies, mais elle repose sur un vœu qui est souvent resté pieux, celui de promouvoir les littératures en langues vernaculaires.

México, el país que produce personas orgullosamente nacionalistas, pero educativamente mediocres.

Cada persona tendrá su propia lista, su propio pedazo del país colgado del corazón. Una lista larga, rica colorida, voluptuosa, fragante. Una lista con la cual contener el pesimismo; una vacuna contra la desilusión. Una lista de lo mejor de México. Una lista para despertarse en las mañanas.

That's the great thing about L.A. No matter who you are, you fit in, because no one fits in, so everyone is in the same boat. And it gets more that way each day. Now it's whites who are odd man out.