Quotes About Culture

If a nation allows its literary culture to die, it's a sign that it doesn't fundamentally care.

If there's ever a moment when I am an Anglophile, it's when I see so many theatres in this country that have what I would call federal funding.

The arts need funding.

I love theatre, but it is losing its value in Punjab. There are no funds or government back up.

A funeral was a great form of entertainment. A wake was a great form of entertainment.

I've always gravitated towards the beats, obviously. And when I was growing up, I always loved funk music or even - dare I say it - disco.

Funk is part of who I am.

I'm a big rock 'n' roll head, I love country music, I love yodeling music. But I'm still black and funky.

People who are from Chicago are just funnier than people who aren't from Chicago.

A lot of baby boomers are baby bongers.

In other countries, congenital introverts simply remain introverts all their lives, neither advancing nor retreating, but America's commitment to extroversion as a national art form can abrade some naturally aloof personalities until they flower into deadly nightshade.

There's something unrefined about a reading woman, they always reek of the lamp. How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book? Granny Rudin

Build a fence around the South and you'd have one big madhouse.

How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book?

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment.

Of course Christopher would cultivate an English accent: to show that he was an English country gentleman. And he would speak correctly – to show that an English Tory can do anything in the world if he wants to . . .

You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been.

It will be like a story from the Arabian Nights, he said. Only an Oriental could have planned it. It does not belong to London fogs.

when Miss St. John called "le bon pain," "lee bong pang.

And, as to her papa, there is nothing so grand in being an Indian officer.

You thought I was a native! You dared! You don't know anything about natives! They are not people—they're servants who must salaam to you. You know nothing about India. You know nothing about anything!

Sara saw that privately she could not help hoping very much that they would all be black, and would wear turbans

To hear this pretty childish voice speaking his own language so simply and charmingly made him feel almost as if he were in his native land — which in dark, foggy days in London sometimes seemed worlds away. When she had finished, he took the phrase-book from her, with a look almost affectionate. But he spoke to Miss Minchin. "Ah, madame," he said, "there is not much I can teach her. She has not learned French; she is French. Her accent is exquisite.