Anna Maria Hall Quotes

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because without mutual respect and mutual responsibility, the truth is we can achieve very little.

I really only respect the Arab culture. I ain't really trying to pay no attention to, ya know, these little people in political positions and executive positions that ain't Arab culture oriented people because a lot of the times, what are you really showing all of this concern for?

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

We have a bad image in the world, I've got to admit. I just want people to think twice about Colombia. Don't go by the first impression.

Believing in each culture's right to be understood by the other party without any form of falseness or distortion is paramount.

China is a company of contradictions. Nothing is what it appears to be. We have to be extremely respectful when we go overseas.

Without knowing the language of a people, we never really know their thoughts, their feelings, and their type of character.

One can never be certain what is in the mind of the oriental but we must leave the oriental no doubt what is in our mind.

Africa doesn't leap on you immediately; it seeps slowly, and it's incredibly important to be respectful and humble there.

But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.

In countries other than Pakistan - I won't necessarily call them 'Western' - people support me. This is because people there respect others. They don't do this because I am a Pashtun or a Punjabi, a Pakistani, or an Iranian, they do it because of one's words and character. This is why I am being respected and supported there.

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.

The two cultures of East and West are very different, and the priorities are very different. So when you understand that - if you are from this side or this side - when you understand that the other is different than you, and you respect these differences, you can build communication.

As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.

I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor.

If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.

The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but it's not a conversation, it's a monologue. It's always from one point of view. 'If we don't tell our own stories, no one will tell them' is my mantra.

What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.

I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.

I think it's important that the rest of the world know that we're not all the same and that we don't all have the sort of arrogance it feels like they're perceiving from our leaders.

Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West.

A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

People in the Middle East may consider the U.S. an evil hegemony that has tainted their culture, but when I look at the growth of racial and ethnic tolerance and understanding in my generation in the U.S., and see those sentiments make it around the world, it makes me feel proud.