Appropriation Quote by Deborah Kass

I am hopeful that the concept of 'cultural appropriation' is a passing fad: people with different backgrounds rubbing up against each other and exchanging…

— Lionel Shriver

Our modern understanding of cultural appropriation is highly individualised. It's all about what Halloween costume you wear, or who's cooking biryani. But the way…

— Ash Sarkar

Cultural appropriation is a big problem, but the thing is, I didn't invent my life. I really lived in Africa.

— Jain

The main problem with cultural appropriation comes from dominant groups 'borrowing' from marginalized groups who face oppression or have been stigmatized for their cultural…

— Franchesca Ramsey

“Language is a bountiful gift and its usage, an elaboration of community and society, is a sacred work. Language and usage evolve over time:…

— Muriel Barbery

By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.

— Anonymous

My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

— Paul Tsongas

If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.

— Frances McDormand

“Language itself is so value-laden as to render value-neutrality almost impossible. Growing up in England I was introduced to the American Revolution by a…

— Arthur F. Holmes

The concept of cultural appropriation is nothing less than an intellectual fence: Keep out.

— Richard Cohen