Kimberly Bryant Quotes

You know, you're living in a society where if you say something that you might think may be OK, when it's more sensitive to that particular culture. You have to be very, very careful.

When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.

I try to study the background of the country I am in and what were my hits there, so I can at least give them some of what they want. It's like a wedding - give them something old, something new, something borrowed and definitely something blue!

Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.

The PC way of handling culture has been to not talk about it. But we should be talking about it.

They're lacking culture in Hollywood. That gives me a big up, right? I know something about pop 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.

Africa doesn't leap on you immediately; it seeps slowly, and it's incredibly important to be respectful and humble there.

Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them.

For a journalist who covers the Muslim world, we have responsibilities to be familiar with that culture and to know how to respond to that.

In the design process, there's a need to be culturally comprehensive.

Contemporary culture is like the weather - we have to be open to it. I don't like the way it is dismissed or closed down.

I can get along great with the Hispanics. In fact, I sure would like to meet them, even the politicians, maybe in the back room or whatever, have a couple of beers and try to explain. But they need to understand that I enforce the laws. I want to listen to them and hear their problems. I want them to tell me what their problems are.

Believing in each culture's right to be understood by the other party without any form of falseness or distortion is paramount.

Successful occupation will not occur unless the special circumstances of this unusual country are heeded.

Britain is undoubtedly becoming more cultural. No question of it. People who say it is dumbing down simply don't look around enough. They don't know enough.

I don't think that people understand enough about each other's cultures any more.

There's a kind of integrity to being an observer of a culture. I think Canadians have that privilege innately. We are, like, the observers of the American culture.

Wherever you go, respect the local culture or you will suffer.

There's a difference between being culturally insensitive - being insensitive towards a culture - and being insensitive.

There's the fine line between presenting your culture and learning about other cultures so it becomes global.

I think that we in the West expect people to adapt to our culture very, very quickly when they come to our country. But when we go over to someone else's, I don't think we are willing to meet them halfway like we expect them to meet us. I think having cultural sensitivity is a lot more important than we realize.

A lot of issues that we have in the world today rise from the fact that we do not know enough about each other's cultures, that we don't respect each other's origins and there is so much negativity and strife around because we don't know where the other person is coming from.

Culture should be shared, not hoarded.

When you care about the culture, you can stop, pause, and say, "Okay, where do I stand in the midst of this all?"