As our company grew and we began growing our family stateside - with heritages ranging from Liberian and Sierra Leonean to Irish,… — Richelieu Dennis Copy Share Image
The construction of femininity is a construction, yes, but also it can be twisted and turned around in such a way that… — Lorna Simpson Copy Share Image
I would not like to draw analogies, with the past.Governments, leaders, intellectuals, mainly intellectuals who should know the ethical dimensions, are so… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement, being in unceasing antagonism to that disposition to aim at… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I like cinematic art that doesn't have to include violence as the main meat of emotion. Now, excellence in cinema is based… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
Man's greatest advances are weapon advances. Culture follows from weaponry, we are militant like the animals and birds - defending our homes.… — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
From Borges, those wonderful gaucho stories from which I learned that you can be specific as to a time and place and… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“Cas Wouters, inspired by conversations with Elias late in his life, suggests that we are living through a new phase in the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Many books condemn 'secular' culture, just as many books advocate (consciously or unconsciously) accommodating ourselves to culture. Brett has written something much… — Mike Erre Copy Share Image
I cannot emphasize enough how wrongheaded this is. Withholding criticism and ignoring differences are racism in its purest form. Yet these cultural… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
I'm dying to go to India... because the culture seems so vastly different from what I'm used to in the States. I… — Christa B. Allen Copy Share Image
Well, I think it's just remarkable how wrong the conventional wisdom was. It was utterly shocking that Donald Trump won to people… — James Vance Copy Share Image
“For it is a fact that a man can be profoundly out of step with his times. A man may have been… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downwards through the mud and slush of opinion and tradition, and pride… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Sexual expression is so powerful a way of bonding with others and so devastating a way of hurting others that it can… — Rachel Adler Copy Share Image
I came out of a culture in which my uncle, my father - they were all salesmen of one kind or another.… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
In my art and life, I really strive to reverse the old adage that what you see is what you get. If… — Jaune Quick–to–See Smith Copy Share Image
“A brilliant jerk is one who is highly competent but whose attitude doesn’t align with company culture. If you end up hiring… — Binod Shankar Copy Share Image
Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald's food for lunch and… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
Sports is a perfect activity in which to see streaks and cycles, organizational and otherwise, in action - and to watch confidence… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
Every time you hear anyone talk about the Caribbean, whether it's Caribbeans themselves or people outside, there's always talk about women's bodies.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There are secularised cultures, but at the core of all of them, the spirit of Tradition remains, religious or otherwise. By defending… — Alexander Dugin Copy Share Image
We live in this culture where there are so many things that want us to pretend that we’re not truly human. That… — Moby Copy Share Image
In America we now live more in fear than in hope, and eventually that will lead to ignorance and hatred. We need… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
Many Westerners see follow-through and reliability as the most critical factor in how they calculate the trustworthiness of another individual. In some… — David Livermore Copy Share Image
I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
I'm conscious of race whenever I'm writing, just as I'm conscious of class, religion, human psychology, politics — everything that makes up… — Dwayne McDuffie Copy Share Image
What I think is important about essayists, about the essay as opposed to a lot of personal writing is that the material… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
You're sort of programmed a certain way because of your environment. That's all you know. But we don't have that anymore because… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
The only way to make a criticism of something is to really participate in it. I'm a completely capitalist person. I participate… — Chloe Wise Copy Share Image
Transcendence or detachment, leaving the body, pure love, lack of jealousy-that's the vision we are given in our culture, generally, when we… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
So I feel now very much like a guardian. I'm standing in front of art. I'm standing in front of cinema. I'm… — Jonathan Majors Copy Share Image
In the products of the culture industry human beings get into trouble only so that they can be rescued unharmed, usually by… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
In spite of conflicting signals - and in spite of a popular culture that sometimes puts down their innocence - most of… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't… — Iggy Azalea Copy Share Image
Within a culture possessed by the myth of feminine evil, the naming, describing, and theorizing about good and evil has constituted a… — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
“Recall Clifford Geertz definition of culture: "an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share Image
The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books, or write opinion pieces… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
