Raymond Bonner Quotes

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

Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.

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

We're a nation in search of an identity, but it's quite exciting. I don't regard it as a problem. It's a challenge.

A country cannot develop without a strong identity.

It's in your DNA to be a Filipino; how can you just turn your back on it?

Am I Latin? Am I American? What the hell am I? I love my culture and I'm very proud of my culture.

We are not America. We are Afghanistan.

In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?

I am a New Zealander, but I don't want to swallow New Zealand identity in one gulp.

I see myself as British, and I want to be celebrated by Britain.

I'm as proud to be Chinese as I am American.

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

Cultural goods … are the source of the Nation's identity, continuity and development.

No nation is formed within a night, one generation's era of even two. A nation can be described as the continuous string of many generations that time, this pitiless, thoughtless sword of nature, separates their physical connections along the course of their history.

The Australian cast of mind is not something I would want to be without - and I couldn't be without. It's not a choice.

I am proud to be Pinoy and I never forget where I came from.

India is still flinching from a cultural insult, still looking for its identity.

All I know is that I'm proud to be Filipino.

Canadians still spend so much time discussing what it means to be Canadian.

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 have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.

The Network Generation are secure in, and proud of, their Scottishness. Unlike my generation that grew up in the '80s, they don't see our sense of identity as under threat.

It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish.

Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.