Fareed Zakaria Quotes

I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic history is in how well it teaches a people to use their own talents, take pride in their own history and love their own memories.

When the culture is strong, you've got this consistency where black people can grow up in these places with this voice just resonating about our special-ness in the universe. And I always say you're in trouble if you get too far away from that core that grounds you.

My thinking is that if we're going to take from a culture, let's take from a culture that has exemplified success for thousands of years.

I don't think what I do is influenced by suffering. I come from a talented people who are prolific in music and dance.

Growing up around people with the same culture as me made me a lot tougher.

I really hold on to my culture because it is what made me.

In 'The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow,' part of the 'Dear America' series, I took my childhood bravery and stubbornness and put that at the core of the Navajo girl, Sarah Nita. It helped me to identify with her survival and to write about her courageous journey and that of her people.

Well, I think, you know, the arts are really what - one of the things that make this country strong. We always think it's our economy or our military power, but in fact, I think it's our culture, our civilization, our ideas, our creativity.

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

Retaining culture takes effort and persistence and discipline. It's a commitment, not a flag. You can't just pull it out and wave it about when it's convenient.

If there is something that I respect about the Arabs, it's the fact that they never change their position.

We must preserve our cultural identity.

Being "Jewish" is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.

Culture has always been more important than politics. Sometimes culture is a mirror that reflects what is; sometimes it's a search-light pointing the way to what will be.

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines.

It’s very important that all of us who have bicultural roots retain our culture.

We of French origin have the sentiment of our own individuality. We want to hand down to our children the language we received from our forefathers.

Societies perish when people forget where they come from.

Custom is our nature …

A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.

The American Motion Picture industry should do all that is within its power to upbuild and strengthen the spirit of Americanism within our people.

In fact, for blacks who have education and who have not succumbed to a new lifestyle—the grievances, and the coarseness represented by rap music—it’s gotten tremendously better. What’s disheartening, though, is that when you study ethnic groups around the world, the ones that are lagging behind are those where their leaders always tell the same story: that it’s other people holding you back, and that therefore you need to stand against those other people and resist their culture. But that culture may be the key to success.

If we deny our culture and become nothing and everything, that weakens us.

When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.

When a country loses its identity, it no longer knows what it is or where it comes from and what its real worth is. So it dissolves.