“Their constant outward-looking, their mania for radios, cars, and a thousand other trinkets made them dream and fix their eyes upon the… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that it's the first time that perhaps the most important… — Rafael Vinoly Copy Share Image
People don't realize how black people, minorities, women as well, all their lives, they have had to make the effort to understand… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
'Luke Cage' came out in 1972 at the height of the blaxploitation era. It was a literary response to this notion of… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
As one of the first African-Americans to be out on a reality program, MTV's 'The Real World: Philadelphia,' I understand the courage… — Karamo Brown Copy Share Image
The word 'resilience,' in our American culture is closely aligned with 'grit,' and that word implies a certain moral fiber that says… — James Redford Copy Share Image
One of the great strengths of American culture is this empowerment of individual, is the individual being able to be entrepreneurial, create… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
With the growing recognition of the value of herbs, it is surely time to examine the professional therapeutic use of these herbs.… — David Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Don’t tread on me I’m not quite clear about how to formulate this question. It has to do with the nature of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As soon as I realized that I didn't need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see… — Cloris Leachman Copy Share Image
“JG: Ha! I will get him Looking for Alaska and tell him this idea that a human being is more than a… — John Green Copy Share Image
Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent. The… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
Gays are not liberated yet. Their struggle is just beginning in an American culture that is still essentially fearful about homosexuality. But… — Liz Smith Copy Share Image
“During the racial confrontations of the 1960s, An American Dilemma encountered rising criticism from activists and scholars who disputed Myrdal's optimism about… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
Diversity means, when the left teaches it, the people responsible for building America and maintaining it get the short end of the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Then one of them asked why Japanese kids try to ape American kids? The clothes, the rap music, the skateboards, the hair.… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Saturday night at my house, I often trot out classic movies and force the urchins to watch them. There is much wailing… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will… — James T. Walsh Copy Share Image
“information, in a stream-of-consciousness soliloquy that revealed the extent to which he had internalised the adversarial fragmentation of American culture and made… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Even though we were influenced by American culture and music, we like the rest of Europe have been colonized with that in… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
“Whiteness is not a culture. There is Irish culture and Italian culture and American culture - the latter, as Albert Murray pointed… — Noel Ignatiev Copy Share Image
“A century ago, in his 1905 classic work The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber argued that striving for… — Scott A. Sandage Copy Share Image
“Anger is stereotypically normal for men because they are supposed to be aggressors. Women are supposed to be victims, and good victims… — Lisa Feldman Barrett Copy Share Image
“Although I have suggested that American culture tends to favor the side of independence over the side of inclusion (and I would… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
I push back against a deeply-entrenched tendency in American culture to label quickly and no longer even examine the labels that were… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
40, 50 years ago, Americans - the majority of Americans did not want to accept these Vietnamese refugees who they saw as… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
“The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
While we have a very strong popular culture, the roots of American culture are very shallow, and we put emphasis on how… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
The success [of the X-Men], I think, is for two reasons. The first is that, creatively, the book was close to perfect… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
I was deeply moved by Richard Blanco's reading of his inaugural poem-a timely and elegant tribute to the great diversity of American… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
There's no reason why you can't say "August Wilson, playwright" even though all of my work, every single play, is about black… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“American culture quite naturally provides these ideological supports to those it favors and elects as fellow participants in the social and psychological… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
“When I was growing up, the “name it and claim it” theology was all the rage—it thrived because it perfectly fit the… — Rick Lawrence Copy Share Image
Media hosts just talk about Golda Meir and Margaret Thatcher and again miss the point. I was talking about AMERICAN culture, ladies… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“But the truth is, the multicultural movement, especially as presented in our educational institutions, isn't really about fostering greater respect among people… — Marybeth Hicks Copy Share Image
“Much of what we have been doing to improve the world's opinion of us has had the contrary effect. Audio-visual aids which… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image