Quotes About Culture

What I need more in my culture and in my life right now is hope, and so I tend to write to that. I'll always end up bending more toward optimism.

Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.

There is a clear intent to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream of the media and the nation's political life.

If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.

My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.

Hotel life is about the same in every latitude.

Food has always been at the center of community bonding, of family life, and simple pleasure, but it is becoming more and more an obsession, a source of pain.

Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.

It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life.

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

If your culture is not peaceful, throw it from your life! If your religion is not peaceful, throw it from your life! Anything which is not peaceful is worthless! Throw it from your life!

West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.

No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people.

Reality TV has managed to commodify everything we used to think of as the elements of normal life.

The medium's gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short.

People need to understand, we can come together as a nation; we can create a culture of life.

I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.

I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.

I was 30 when 9/11 happened and I had lived exactly 15 years of life in America, so I was half American. I was a full-fledged New Yorker.

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.

Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.

I've been doing African dance all my life.

If I look at the definition of Hinduism, the Supreme Court of India has given a beautiful definition; it says that Hinduism is not a religion, it is actually a way of life.

Apart from life, a strong constitusion and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla