Michelle Paver Quotes

Obviously, my Indigenous culture is very special to me.

Hair pieces and head dresses have always been something that's been part of my culture.

I really hold on to my culture because it is what made me.

I have long hair because I'm American Indian. I'm an Oklahoma boy, and I'm very proud of my heritage.

This is a coca leaf. This is not cocaine. This represents the culture of indigenous people of the Andean region.

We never wore burkas because Somalis had our own culture.

Women of African descent, since the beginning of time, have altered their hair, decorated it and used it to designate status.

My Indigenous heritage is something I hold close to my heart.

When I first came out, I was wearing full-on traditional Nigerian wear. I got told by a lot of people that I should just tone it down. I only stopped when I realized there's only so many prints you can wear.

I get quite bemused by the comments made about what I wear because, for African people, how you dress is very important.

When I'm back home, all I wear is African fabric. All I really rock is the traditional stuff.

As a black woman, there's so much pride and communication through hair. It's naturally something that you are excited to embellish on and be creative about.

She's Cherokee Indian, which is great 'cause whenever we have sex, it rains.

Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.

People forget that art is not just a piece of entertainment. It is the place where we collectively declare our values and then act on them. That's one of the most powerful things we have as a community: our culture and our art. And it's the intersection between life and how people deal with life. It's the most important thing we do.

It's depressing to see blacks wanting to dive into the mainstream of American commercial life. They come from a magnificent African culture based on aesthetics, and they all want to become fort builders like the vicious people who originally enslaved them.

A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.

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

Happiness is a very proud word of our whole cultural heritage.

Body adornments show that we're aware of our bodies and expect others to be aware as well.

Being "Jewish" is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.

I always love messing with my own hair as much as I can; I don't normally like to wear wigs.

Neighbors would pass, and when they honked I'd remember that I was in my Speedo. Then I'd wrap my towel like a skirt around my waist and remind my sisters that this was not girlish but Egyptian, thank you very much.

If you think about black art, all black art, whether it's Invisible Man or whether it's James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Hurston, or Richard Wright, they all deal with elements of identity and trying to humanize our experience and our struggle in the world where people have been indifferent to who we are and what we are. It's basically just saying that our lives have meaning.

Multiculturalism has seemed to imply, wrongly for me, let other cultures be allowed to express themselves but do not let the majority culture at all tell us its glories, its struggles, its joys, its pains.