Culture Quotes

"Classic: a book which people praise and don't read." "Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." "Without freedom, no art; art lives only on" "For individuals character is destiny For organizations culture is destiny" "When Black women rock, everybody rocks" "A writer's job is to give testimony, to bear witness to an age and the legacies of those who inhabit it." "Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future." "There is no norm that, when violated, does not become the norm of another." "All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual" "I think food, culture, people and landscape are all absolutely inseparable." "Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it." "One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words " "Political chaos is connected with the decay of language." "The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music" "Great leaders build a culture of inclusion and respect for diversity"