culture Quotes

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

All religions have been made by men.

Reading literature remains a civilising activity, no matter that it's literature in which people do and say abominable things and the author curses like the very devil. What's at issue is how we describe the way the civilising works.

A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian.

Among the many arguments to be made against cultural revolutions is that they are monotonous in spirit and monomaniacal in intention.

American literature has always been immigrant.

It is a nonsense to me when people come along and tell me not to be pessimistic; or that culture has always been going to the bad. Well, yes, it has, and it is an author's job to point it out.