Culture

“A spirit of progress is dawning, such as the Māori people have never realized before.”

“Los mexicanos obedecemos mayormente por amor, no por poder.”

“There is no being like “the African God” except in the imagination of those who use the term.”

“We make movies for adults and the adult that exists in every child.”

“It’s the whole question ... of imagination in an industrial society.”

“I believe there is something that can be passed between writers, between generations—that changes in time but not in essentials.”

“My African background gives me identity.”

“When you honour a Polynesian, you honour the tribe, the island, the race.”

“What we need is an open climate within our institutions to allow artists to practise their art.”

“The future of Uganda is Hiphop.”

“Personally, I have always thought that we ought to put a lot of resources in the way of African languages.”

“This is the benediction that is celebrated, a fresh language and a fresh people, and this is the frightening duty owed.”

“Našel jsem tu Válku s mloky. K Čapkovi jsem měl vždycky blízko.”

“La pensée africaine est aussi vieille que les peuples africains eux-mêmes.”

“To understand a culture is to say to yourself, If I’d been living then I could conceive that I could have believed that and remained rational and been quite a decent sort of person.”

“It’s the blues.”

“ヒップホップって文化だし、インストでもヒップホップは表現できると思うから。”

“The answer is within us, our own history, our own rich culture.”

“Would anybody anywhere else say something like that?”

“This is the marvellous thing about theatre. The audience continually relates it to their own lives.”