Culture Quotes

"The power of humans depends on the power of our stories" "The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same." "There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a very violent culture." "You have to make culture an everyday thing." "Literature is news that stays news." "All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual" "We inhabit a language rather than a country" "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture Just get people to stop reading them" "To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi." "It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet." "For my people everywhere singing their slave songs repeatedly their dirges and their ditties and their blues and jubilees" "You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline" "A world without stories would be a world without love" "Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists" "The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds"