Bent Quote by Ishmael Reed

We learn about one another's culture the same way we learn about sex: in the streets.

— Ishmael Reed

The psychological consequences of this spread of white culture have been out of all proportion to the materialistic. This world-wide cultural diffusion has protected…

— Ruth Benedict

Ours is indeed a culture that tends to assign value to a woman based on her sex appeal rather than her character, and that’s…

— Rachel Held Evans

The American sense of the importance, the fundamental importance of the black-white dichotomy, comes out of societies founded in the era of the African…

— Nell Irvin Painter

“secular, pluralistic, Western culture? There are several other “pressure points” at which our culture in the West is vulnerable to challenge. Western culture longs…

— Timothy Keller

We need to challenge the dominant culture: by ethics, principles and values.

— Tariq Ramadan

I'm so voracious with books, movies, TV, and I'm always interested in the way that different cultural values are presented or, in their absence,…

— Martine Syms

That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people…

— Anita Loos

This Western culture of ours tends to sacrifice the full range of experience to a lower common denominator that's acceptable to more people; we…

— Kate Bornstein

There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western…

— Steven Pinker

America has many cultures which makes it great, but it's difficult to create one strong identity.

— Lidia Bastianich

There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue.

— James Cromwell