Joseph Bruchac Quotes

We should see to it that our people are steeped in a real knowledge and understanding of our national culture.

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.

I'm Cherokee, and there were times when social expansion was something that is needed by a cultural group or a national group.

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

We want to uplift the culture of Filipino - our respect to our elders, how we pray before we eat and sleep. These are things the younger generations tend to forget because of our exposure to other cultures.

When members of a society wish to secure that society's rich heritage they cherish their arts and respect their artists. The esteem with which we regard the multiple cultures offered in our country enhances our possibilities for healthy survival and continued social development.

Black culture is very difficult to explain to people who don't have any direct contact with it.

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

I don't think the American government has a lot of respect for culture.

The fact that we are culturally ignorant and we don't know what our heritage is, the price that we pay is that we act outside of ourselves almost all the time. We make very bad decisions how we deal with other people and their culture.

One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.

In Australia, we cling on to whatever culture we have. We're such a multicultural country.

A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.

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.

Everyone who's born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans.

My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the past.

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

We feel free. We're independent. People can be openly proud of being Estonian. I have a lot of belief in Estonia.

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

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

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.

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

Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.

Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?

Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!