Karamo Brown Quotes

Culture is a reflection of values.

Culture is central to what makes us human.

The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.

Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.

Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.

Culture' and 'cult' derive from the same word; what a culture worships defines it.

My family and my friends definitely keep me connected to my culture.

Religion is so much more than the god you pray to. The religion that you associate with, it's culture, it is family, it is background. That is something that I have always grown up with.

I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones.

Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life.

Countries and places have a history, a story, and a culture.

I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

Culture is more important than politics.

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

I've studied my culture deeply and I'm very aware of my tradition.

It takes a lifetime to build tradition.

[Culture] denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms, by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life.

I think that our comfort is in our history.

I just love tradition.

We want to represent the things we believe.

Bring the arts back, and treat it with respect.

I think culture is a very challenging thing to reverse.

We can never run away from our past. The past will catch up to us because it is us. It is a part of us; it's what makes us we are. It's what delineates the borders of our societies.