Cultural Heritage Quotes

"Give me a museum and I'll fill it." "People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them" "One of the greatest parts of being Hawaiian is that tradition is passed down" "It’s about who we are as a people, about whether this will remain the nation I’ve always known. We’re in the battle for the soul of this nation" "I see myself as an ambassador of French heritage and French culture. What we create is emblematic" "I want my careless song to strike no minor key no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song the fusion of the South the blood of all the races" "The beauties and joys of medieval literature alone provide more than enough delight for those who can read" "The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." "The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories" "The role of the storyteller is to regenerate the past so that it might deliver its message for the present moment" "The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him." "The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India" "I am a native American and by that I mean I am a real American;"