Culture

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

“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.”

“La literatura refleja las ideas vigentes en una sociedad, y es expresión de ella.”

“Anything and everything involving ideas, including theology, is intimately bound up with the existing social situation in at least an unconscious way.”

“When I came to Poland, the [embassy] staff immediately said to me, 'let's promote Indonesia and gamelan!' But I just had to say 'stop that.'”

“Tradition is not constant and static; it grows and builds.”

“其實我唱歌是為全體中國人而唱的，和台灣、大陸都沒有關係。”

“The very essence of Russian life is communal.”

“This is Egypt, and I am one of its people.”

“Film adalah hasil industri barang perdagangan, hasil cipta kebudayaan, dan alat propaganda, alat penerangan, alat pendidikan.”

“My painting is an act of decolonization—not in a physical sense, but in a mental one.”