Michael Dyson Quotes

There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them.

Over the course of my life, I have made many transitions - most of them taking me further away from my Somali roots and steadily toward the enlightened mentality of Western democracy.

All culture, all important culture, is always linked to how people express and experience being alive.

Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.

Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.

There's no way to escape the culture that has evolved, from which we ourselves have evolved. Naturally, we stress it, break it up, reassemble it to suit our own needs. But it is there - a source of vital strength.

Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.

I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

I would go to school and be American and then come home and be Greek.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

Definitely the Korean culture is very strong to me, and I grew up in Hawaii where Asian-Americans are the dominant culture, but I never thought of myself as the minority.

We need to have a view that culture has a value in itself, not just in terms of a social and economic value.

You have social media and the Internet and immigration and so, suddenly, cultures are clashing and people feel as if they're less familiar with the people around them. That causes social anxieties.

Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it.

It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment.

I've travelled a lot, but I am essentially American. All my input has been American.

I don't personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.

If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?

The culture is still there, and people are still doing it. I imagine some people are doing it very well indeed. As for me, it definitely was my native literary culture. Science fiction was where I'm from, but on the way to now, I went through a lot of other territory, and I wasn't really that culturally conventional an SF writer when I started.

We are taking our culture and suturing it to America. Like gum on the bottom of a shoe, we are not going to disappear. Unlike other peoples who totally assimilated, we are more interested in co-assimilation.

[ My time and our common culture] it's what I'm photographing, and I'm very involved with that.

I've never left my culture. I've left my country, but I've not left my culture. In the same way, you shouldn't be worried why George Lucas is going to the outer galaxy to make a movie. He's still making a film within his culture; he's making an American film. I go to Thailand or the Peruvian jungle, the Amazon, and I still make Bavarian films.