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“Retaining culture takes effort and persistence and discipline. It's a commitment, not a flag. You can't just pull it out and wave it about when it's convenient.” quote by Alexandra Fuller — Download Open image

“Retaining culture takes effort and persistence and discipline. It's a commitment, not a flag. You can't just pull it out and wave it about when it's convenient.”

Alexandra Fuller

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“Toasted tobacco, no additives,' I said. 'Yum. Tastes like childhood.”

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I don't think we have all the words in a single vocabulary to explain what we are or why we are. I don't think we have the range of emotion to fully feel what someone else is feeling. I don't think any of us can sit in judgment of another human being. We're incomplete creatures, barely scraping by. Is it…

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In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no one was immune to capricious…

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I listen mostly to classical music.

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What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with…

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One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself…

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“How much strength must one people have? And for how long must they have it?”

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In general, I almost always watch foreign films.

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I think that being raised the way I was, where everything was so uncompromising, where, you know, we're prepared to fight to the death…

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This is not a full circle. It's life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice we make to get…

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“The schools wear the blank faces of war buildings, their windows blown blind by rocks or guns or mortars. Their plaster is an acne of bullet marks. The huts and small houses crouch open and vulnerable; their doors are flimsy pieces of plyboard or sacks hanging and lank. Children and chickens and dogs scratch in the red, raw soil and…

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Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I…

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What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of…

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Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts.

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A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if you don't deal properly with ancestor spirits, then they come back and infest the living in the form of things like depression, addictive patterns, and neuroses. We in the modern West completely deny the existence of…

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In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you…

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I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested…

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Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.

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The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country - a border culture.

Gloria E. Anzaldúa