Cultural Responsibility Quotes

I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past.

The ruin of a nation begins in the homes of its people.

I think in our culture there's been a tendency for people to blame the audience. There is a tendency in our industry to say, 'The audience has left the building. People don't want culture anymore.'

When I speak, I don't speak for myself; I don't have the luxury of a Caucasian to be able to speak for myself. I speak for a whole community, and I represent so many different communities that that felt like a lot of pressure.

When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.

What we try to say is that it doesn't matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat or conservative or independent. You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch.

You re being handed a national treasure. Your main responsibility is that whenever you may leave it, it still remains a national treasure.

I believe that we have a responsibility to make culture available for all people, not only those who can afford to go to the movies.

Congress has a moral obligation as caretaker of America's culture.

What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates your duty. And by writing about black people, you are not limiting yourself. The experiences of African-Americans are as wide open as God's closet.

Freedom of expression has a responsibility by those people who espouse it in the West, in particular non-Muslims.

Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products.

From the first, I regarded myself as under obligation to my country to preserve the faces of its historic men and mothers

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.

Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.

We are greatly conscious of the fact that among the Lamanites - as well as among all peoples of other countries - we have a responsibility to see that the gospel touches their hearts and minds and that they understand it.

Companies don't have one culture. They have as many as they have supervisors or managers. You want to build a strong culture? Hold every manager accountable for the culture that he or she builds.

I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture.

As much as I would like to be the one who saved hip-hop culture, it's pretty much nigh-on impossible.

Latinos don't go out and support their own films, but at the same time, it's not their responsibility.

I feel responsible to my people to portray them the way we should be.

People don't really want to hear me say this, but a black person who will give a million dollars to the Museum of Modern Art but won't give a million to the Studio Museum in Harlem is simply mistaken.

Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable.

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.