Yusef Lateef Quotes

If you're becoming weary and disillusioned with Australian values, Judeo-Christian values or Western civilisation, I recommend strangers - they're such a glorious, redeeming wilderness to wander into.

Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter.

I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!

I think that one of the main privileges of what I do, which I am just starting to learn, is to have the ability to travel all over the world and experience different cultures.

It's wonderful to learn about new cultures and to be able to travel easily to so many countries.

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

Travel is so important in its capacity to expand the mind. It's exciting to start as young as possible - you get to see how other cultures live, challenge your senses, and try different cuisines.

I find it very beautiful to work in different countries because I see the mentality differences there. It is so rich, one always carries forward something.

I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.

I used to think that, given enough goodwill, anybody would be able to 'get' any music, no matter how distant the culture from which it came. And then I heard Chinese opera.

I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.

Kids my age never left California. And here I was, going to school with Aboriginal kids in a dream-like location.

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners

Executives in Hollywood are missing a lot because they don't want to watch other cultures.

I was lucky to move around different cultures at an early age and have experience of different lifestyles.

We in the so called 'Western civilisations' have so much to learn from other cultures, and they would stand to gain so much by learning from ours. We don't have all the answers - far from it... but nor do any other culture or religion.

I love getting to have different food and getting to be around different people and different cultures and different ways people look at life. It's really kind of helped me open up my mind and see the world from different perspectives.

My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.

We will, as Americans, inhale another culture on a fork before we try their music or their art or even, God forbid, hang out with the actual people.

The experience of travelling, getting familiar with other languages, other cultures definitely helps. It makes you a better person.

I think it is so beneficial to English and British football when youngsters see different cultures and environments.

Who could think that children from the pockets of Himalaya sing folklore from Scotland and vice versa? Such an education in the initial years develops compassion and mutual respect for each other's skills.

You have to go to other countries to realize Taipei is a place where there is diversity of thought.