June Jordan Quotes

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it.

The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together. If we truly understood the history of our national arts, we'd know that we have mutual aspirations, a shared history, in good times and bad.

I've been marching in every single ethnic nationality parade all throughout the City of New York. We're all Americans first and foremost, but people understand their heritage and it's good to see.

This great country, this India, is woven of the rich individual strands of our regions, languages, religions, traditions, and communities through the ages. Yet its vibrant beauty can be seen only as a whole, a single seamless fabric, much greater than the sum of all the strands.

Cambodia is not only a country of war, but also a country of culture. It's in our DNA.

The best thing about being from Britain is that it's a melting pot of cultures, characters, and creativity. I couldn't imagine coming from anywhere else.

Our nation is comprised of many different backgrounds and cultures, one of the many things that makes me immensely proud to be a South African.

I grew up in a very culturally diverse area of America and I am very proud to come from there.

Our diversity is not something that is on paper. It is the manifestation of our strength. It is not only our identity but also our tradition.

India is a civilization with a history that is thousands of years old.The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

We have cultural depth. We get all kinds of stuff to chew on, to live on.

People need to understand, we can come together as a nation; we can create a culture of life.

We came from many roots, and we have many branches.

It aint about black or white cause we're human

Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.

Puerto Ricans are many colors - we are Spanish, we're French, we're Thai, Indian, we're almost black, some of us.

Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.

It is important to note that multiculturalism does not share the postmodernist stance. Its passions are political; its assumptionsempirical; its conception of identities visceral. For it, there is no doubting that history is something that happened and that those happenings have left their mark within our collective consciousness. History for multiculturalists is not a succession of dissolving texts, but a tense tangle of past actions that have reshaped the landscape, distributed the nation's wealth, established boundaries, engendered prejudices, and unleashed energies.

Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world.

I think America offers a dream that cannot be fulfilled as easily anywhere else in the world as it could be fulfilled here. Although oppression was common to all of us, those styles of oppression gave us the opportunity to see the world in dimensions we didn't quite see growing up in any one place.

I would like to say something just about the Mexican people. It is a population that has a wealth, such great wealth, a people that surprises.

The one thing we all have in common is that we're human. Why pay more attention to the things that make us different over the things that bring us together?

We sit here, very different each from the other, until the passion arrives to give us our equality, to make us part of the play, to make the play part of us.

We need to embrace the differences between our cultures and love them.