George Carlin Quotes

The stories I always see about a first-generation kid trying to erase where they came from, or trying to just be white, I would watch those shows or movies and I was like, 'I don't get this.' This isn't how I feel.

One of the upsides of tourism is that people begin to take themselves a little more seriously (and think their) culture is worth something. So rather than disparaging the local culture, they vitalize it.

I've got to where am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

There are some Chicanos who don't want to be Chicanos - they want to be Mexican-American, Hispanic, or even Spanish.

If we lose our culture, we lose our memory.

We're a proud people. We don't want to be assimilated.

We used to have a view that to really be a good Australian, to love Australia, you almost had to cut your links with the country of origin. But I don’t think that was right and it never was right.

There are several different traits that make up a person's identity. For me, being Vietnamese American is the entirety of who I am.

I'm looking forward to it, to be able to represent the black culture... but I'm doing my best at managing it, keeping it behind me, and that's the best thing I can do.

Chinese people need to be aware of their present and ask, 'What's our culture? What can we bring to the world?' I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

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

Native people such as the Cherokees are just as human and complex and real as Americans are, and our nation needs to respect American Indian cultures and traditions.

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

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.

Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.

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

My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America.

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'

So many white kids, English kids - we had no culture.

In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.

I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain.

Sometimes I have a very fleeting emotional dance with a fleeting phrase, like 'half-Mexican.'

There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all.