Tim Cope Quotes

Culture in general is important, and people's identify is tied up in it. It's how we connect with others.

If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me?

Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be extraordinarily challenging.

Gift giving is one of the oldest forms of human interaction. It is a behaviour all cultures and all classes share.

For humans, gift giving is a universal ritual laden with evolutionary implications.

Pop culture and entertainment can be dismissed as surface, but it's not. It's the language we all speak, and it's the connection point between people all over the world.

I think that's the best thing about being black is that we find a way to make our own communities and always give room for people to pull up to our tables. We always provide a way for other people from different walks of life to come into the communities that we have built because we're so used to being excluded.

It is always something special when you can talk with people from your country. It is always nice to hear advice in your own language.

For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.

Gifts, like words, carried with them a great deal of power. They bestowed good fortune just as powerfully as they could curse; the could bind people together or tear them apart.

My parents sent me to a school across town, an integrated school, where I had the chance to meet and grow up with people who were from other parts of the world. ... I remember feeling that I would never have anything to contribute on St. Patrick's Day. I couldn't tell the stories that they might have been telling about their forebears and I felt left out.

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides.

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

Making the extra effort to say thanks in a genuine, personal manner goes a long way. It is pleasurable to do, and it encourages more of the same good behavior.

Culture is another dimension.

People aren't trees, so it is false when they speak of roots.

Faith my homegirl. I just wanna send a shout out to Faith. Hey girl.

We can think of solutions in various theoretical ways, but it's not so on the ground. If they don't have a reference that helps them to belong, then they will end up excluding, and through that they get to feel that they belong on the basis of some narrow identity, language or color.

The degree to which we connect to a community is in proportion to our individuality.

Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so; their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.

Food served is always more than just food served. That is to say, it is more than just fuel for the body. Depending upon who has prepared the food and who has served it and with what spirit, it can uplift the - and around the world, in every culture, food is used to flirt, to be coy, a raise in the employment or to search for employment. It can bring warring factions together.

You can only stay connected if you feel connected.

The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.

Well Stephanie, I'd like to thank you for giving me such a kind Christmas gift, but unfortunately I didn't get you any gifts. But then again, what can you get for the girl whose had everyone?