3,162 Quotes About Culture

The old myth traveled upward and outward; the new travels downward and inward.

Go places, everywhere you can See the world—Bring a journal, a camera Try new foodsMeet new people, make new friends Different culturesBring you to your authentic self.

The decision must be made between Judaism and Christianity, between business and culture, between male and female, between the race and the individual, between unworhtiness and worth, between the earthly and the higher life, between negation and God-like. Mankind has the choice to make. There are only two poles, and there is no middle way.

In monocultural societies, people do not want their daughters to marry black men in particular

It is a mistake to think Africans are not good husbands

If you marry an African, you will marry a man who takes his responsibility for the family seriously

Marriage is a sign for maturity for an African man

As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who tithe simply because they feel that they must tithe, I am provoked by those who commemorate simply because they feel that they must commemorate.

Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is defined by the bitterness of death. Thus the white peoples of the world foresee a time when their land with its rivers and mountains still lies under heaven as it does today, but other people dwell there; when their language is entombed in books, and their laws and customs have lost their living power.