Marcela Valladolid Quotes

I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

The ministry of culture is nowhere, but cultural life is everywhere.

Every culture is very important. Dartmouth has always been dedicated to diversity of culture.

Taiwan has been so well developed economically. But we are underdeveloped culturally.

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.

We must link Azamgarh to art and culture and not with terrorism and crime.

My parents always wanted me to learn about my culture and tried to make me eat Vietnamese food.

It is really important for me to help my culture.

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.

Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.

We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the Appalachian of this area, but at the same time, just as we have the Haitian room, we will always have room for another exhibit.

So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.

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.

Unfortunately, I don't look as Latin as I am. I get called a white guy a lot, but I am very proud of my heritage. I try my hardest to bring honor to my Mexican roots. Latin people are very passionate and loyal, and I will always remember who I am and where I come from.

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

My cultural experiences were as important to my formation as many of the other things that happened to me.

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

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

When I was in South Africa, I went for dinner with some friends, and I knew more about their history than they did - it just hasn't been told.

In every country and region, there are practices and ways of living and culture that have been handed down from ancestors. Naturally, I feel that these should be respected.

The parent characters that I portray are Indian because I grew up in an Indian household. Having said that, I feel like people of all cultures would relate to those parents.

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

I think in our culture there's been a tendency for people to blame the audience. There is a tendency in our industry to say, 'The audience has left the building. People don't want culture anymore.'

What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.