Culture

“The poetry, the culture itself, exists not in a dictionary but in the tradition of the spoken word.”

“Barat adalah Barat, Timur adalah Timur.”

“أرى أن نؤسس حزباً ونسميه البعث العربي وأقترح أن يقسم التنظيم إلى قسمين: سياسي وثقافي.”

“Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.”

“My soul is in Europe. This is the place where I belong.”

“In cultures like India’s, the context-sensitive kind of rule is the preferred formulation.”

“Does eating African rice with a European spoon make the rice also European?”

“A spirit of progress is dawning, such as the Māori people have never realized before.”

“Los mexicanos obedecemos mayormente por amor, no por poder.”

“There is no being like “the African God” except in the imagination of those who use the term.”

“We make movies for adults and the adult that exists in every child.”

“It’s the whole question ... of imagination in an industrial society.”

“I believe there is something that can be passed between writers, between generations—that changes in time but not in essentials.”

“My African background gives me identity.”

“What we need is an open climate within our institutions to allow artists to practise their art.”

“The future of Uganda is Hiphop.”

“Personally, I have always thought that we ought to put a lot of resources in the way of African languages.”

“This is the benediction that is celebrated, a fresh language and a fresh people, and this is the frightening duty owed.”