Cultural Disenfranchisement Quotes

I've always been an outsider everywhere I go - I don't fit in with the Swedish rap community or the American rap community. But who cares?

The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground.

At school, I never had a hold on English history, and cheder was a place run by sadistic incompetents, so I felt alienated from the Jewish part of my past.

I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.

On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away.

There is in our society a gulf opening up, a kind of cultural apartheid, between those who are brought up to feel our national culture is theirs, to take ownership of it, and enjoy the privileges of that, and those who are completely disfranchised, those - for example - who will never be taken to the theatre to see Shakespeare.

There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.

I didn't want to make a literal film about Detroit, because it felt like what they were experiencing was more universal than that.

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.