“ ...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces... Maquita Donyel Irvin
“ Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and laughter, common to all human beings. Aberjhani
“ In many ways, the title American is an oxymoron because one may look it on the outside but not feel it on the inside. Ciore Taylor
“ Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor. Ryan Lilly
“ On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other's humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by… Aberjhani
“ When the purpose of clearly exposing the differences between the Aryan and the Tamil culture, civilization, conduct and creed Thirukkural was written. I am of that firm view. Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
“ I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“ People from different cultures have different definitions for beauty. Isn't that sad to judge others with our standards... rather than appreciate them? Mizuki Nomura
“ Fiction, if done right, can bridge cultural divides. Stories can be a footpath for a reader to step into another land and view its indigenous practices and beliefs through a local lens, instead of a t… Nadia Hashimi
“ Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to the other is possible. Robin Flower
“ I know by my own experience how, from a stranger met by chance, there may come an irresistible appeal which overturns the habitual perspectives just as a gust of wind might tumble down the panels of a… Gabriel Marcel
“ By sabotaging logic, the common frame of reference, and the common language, we have removed a "safety valve" that allows cultural divides to be resolved. Mike Klepper
“ Differences simply act as a yarn of curiosity unraveling until we get to the other side. Ciore Taylor
“ I am living in world full of lost hope and discrimination. I am living a life in which social equality does not exist and I am not sure that it ever can, or if once upon a time it ever did. Ciore Taylor
“ They play, said the old man. Every week the anglos play a game to celebrate who they are. He stopped, raised his cane and fanned the air. One of them whacks it, then sets off like it was a trip around… Yuri Herrera
“ The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely do we identify ourselves with those we would condemn. By refusing to consider as human those who see… Claude Levi-Strauss
“ Try seeing, feeling, and tasting the water you swim in the way a land animal might perceive it. You may find the experience fascinating -- and mind-expanding. Erin Meyer
“ A phenomenon that might seem only backwards or silly when expressed at a social level becomes madness at the individual level. Caitlín R. Kiernan
