Jill Lepore Quotes

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

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

America has many cultures which makes it great, but it's difficult to create one strong identity.

A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.

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

You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.

There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian culture coincides neatly with borders.

Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.

I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe in American values, our American system, our freedom, our liberties.

The diversity of America is a strength of the country, and I don't think that we use that. We don't talk about our strengths. I mean, having so many diverse people in this country from all aspects of all over the world, and we don't use that. I think we should talk about who we are - that melting pot that we've become.

A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of people in relation to other people. I reach for these outward stories to make sense of my own life, and how my story intersects with a larger public history.

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

One motherland, one sanskriti (culture), common ancestry and heritage and unity in diversity. It is these three that constitute the national culture. The mode of worship can differ from person to person.

A nation is a work of art and a work of time.

Nobody is sure what our culture is or whether we even have a national culture at all.

I think that's what makes many Swedes jealous of immigrant groups. You have a culture, an identity, a history, something that brings you together. And what do we have? We have Midsummer's Eve and such silly things.

We want American customs, habits, manners, dress, manufactures, modes of thought, modes of expression, and language. We should encourage national and even State peculiarities; for there are peculiarities and differences in the wants and situations of all people, that require provincial and national, not cosmopolitan, institutions and productions.

Britishness has got to be the foundation of the multicultural society in this country. Anything less than this is farcical and treacherous.

We're Americans. It's a culture. We should defend that culture, and we should reinforce that culture.

Enshrined in a language is the whole of a community's history and a large part of its cultural identity. The world is a mosaic of visions. To lose even one piece of this mosaic is a loss for all of us.

My love of South Africa is not gray; it's not vague. It's very specific. It's in keeping with our Constitution - 'Unity in diversity.'

I appreciate America as being the most artistic nation because of its diversity.

National identity does not figure in the Tamil way of thinking.

As a child, I didn't even realize I was Chinese. I was Singaporean, but my identity was wrapped up in the culture I was experiencing every day.

I don't think that I can tell any story better than the story of my own country, than the stories of my own countrymen.