Culture Quotes

"The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music" "The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing" "There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism" "A town isn't a town without a bookstore" "You have to work at creating your own culture" "Civilization is, among other things, the process by which animals are turned into men." "There is no norm that, when violated, does not become the norm of another." "We commit ourselves to language and community at the same time" "A writer's job is to give testimony, to bear witness to an age and the legacies of those who inhabit it." "Your culture is your brand" "There is something very odd about the respect accorded to religion." "Political chaos is connected with the decay of language." "Every age has its own blindness." "Great art shapes the world, and people recognise themselves in it, and find it changed for that moment." "Man is the storytelling animal." "You can do universal themes in a community setting but you can't do community themes in a universal setting." "When Black women rock, everybody rocks" "The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out " "The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes" "The foundation of empire is art and science"