culture Quotes

In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.

The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'

If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.

In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

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.

I came across few whites as a boy at Qunu. The local magistrate, of course, was white, as was the nearest shopkeeper. Occasionally, white travelers or policemen passed through our area. These whites appeared as grand as gods to me, and I was aware that they were to be treated with a mixture of fear and respect.

The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.