And Culture Quotes

And Culture Quote of the day

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the history and culture of other people.

Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.

Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had not understood India. My vocation was culture, not sainthood.

Between the marketplace and government there exists all of that which makes life worth living-family life, spiritual life, the art and culture that make our spirits soar.

Art and culture are nonetheless vital, essential even, to what it means to be human, yet digital abundance has diminished our sense of their worth.

No revolution creates a wholly new universe. Rather, it reflects the history and culture that spawned it.

Our job is not to worship history and culture like fetishes, but to feed them into our living, creative stream of personal life for spiritual and intellectual reprocessing.

I've always found that the best travelers are the very same people who are intensely interested in the history and culture of their own home city.

I have a huge interest in Japan, which is well known, including its history and culture, and so it will be very interesting for me to see and learn more about Japan.

What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.

My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.

I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster.

When I traveled through Greece in the '90s, everything [Albert Hoxie] taught me came flooding back and I was able to appreciate the art and culture much more because of him.

I realised that although I was fascinated with America, its history and culture, I was not interested in becoming American.

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

So-called Chinese art and culture is under control of the Party. They exist to serve the official agenda. I call it fake art and culture.

I know the community mostly for its art and culture... and of course its food, I eat at their restaurants." "They make you feel like taking off your shoes... it feels like home.

I didn’t bring you up to speak as if your mouth were filled with sewage.

Shouldn't you be asking for my name first?

They sit there shouting "Don't do it." Someone told them revolution looked like the Cosby Show. A slight tug with a good lesson. Revolution is a tough struggle between what was and what needs to be.

An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary is irrelevant.

Suspicion of Abuse gets to your toes before you see it in your face.

The only color we must be cynical about is never skin color but, the color of character for what character can do, skin color may never be able to do.

It’s illegal to yell ‘Fire!’ in a crowded theater, right?” “It is.” “Well, I’ve whispered ‘Racism’ in a post-racial world.

To those supremacist racists I ask what color will be their bodies when they turn to dust.

If origin defines race, then the entire human race is African.

Growing up I sometimes imagined that for Christ's return perhaps He would appear as 'Black Jesus' to white people and 'White Jesus' to black people just to screw with the racists.

I am living in world full of lost hope and discrimination. I am living a life in which social equality does not exist and I am not sure that it ever can, or if once upon a time it ever did.

My skin is beautiful but it also serves as a huge barrier for so many opportunities that I want to pursue in life.

It’s unfortunate really—how everyone can live on the same soil yet not even know the first thing about their neighbors.

Differences simply act as a yarn of curiosity unraveling until we get to the other side.

In many ways, the title American is an oxymoron because one may look it on the outside but not feel it on the inside.

Here was a king who saw his subjects as peers and allies around whom he had growing up rather than semi-alien entities to be suspected and persecuted.

Saying something is 'politically correct' is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.

When a political opponent resorts to the racist card, it's a sure sign of moral bankruptcy: there's no decent argument left in the armoury.

A joyful life, reaching out to people from all walks of life.

If you can't see past my name, you can't see me.

Pride is the problem. Everyone wants to be right so badly they overlook the "rights" of others.

We all may be living in different countries, geographical areas, and time zones but one thing which unites us all is that we all belong to one race which is humanity!

What is it that makes us who we are and what we are? Is it only our blood, the color of our hair, our skin, and our eyes? Or is it believing in what we believe and living the way we live?

If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend.

Self Hate: The deadliest 'dis-ease' experienced by wounded souls.