Culture Quotes

"There is something very odd about the respect accorded to religion." "Political chaos is connected with the decay of language." "Every age has its own blindness." "Great art shapes the world, and people recognise themselves in it, and find it changed for that moment." "Man is the storytelling animal." "You can do universal themes in a community setting but you can't do community themes in a universal setting." "When Black women rock, everybody rocks" "The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out " "The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes" "The foundation of empire is art and science" "Myths and legends die hard in America" "Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future." "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture." "The arts are not just the icing on the cake. They are an integral part of the cake itself." "A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic."