"A culture is a total way of life. It embraces what people ate and what they wore; the way they walked and the way they talked; the manner in which they treated death and greeted the newborn."

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Source : Walter Rodney (2012). “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa”, p.34, Fahamu/Pambazuka

Walter Rodney

#People Quotes #Way Quotes #Culture Quotes

“Picture a place called the Karma Kafe and it'll save me the bother of describing it. There was nothing in it you wouldn't expect, from the Buddha flowerpots to the wallpaper decorated with symbols that probably said, "If you bought this just because it looked pretty, may Buddha piss in your coffee, you culturally ignorant moron.”
“I like cookies, any cookie you put in front of me - animal cookies, sugar cookies, anything crunchy.”
“In my heart, I really don't care who you love, same sex or not; as long as you have the ability to love, that's the important thing here.”

Source : "Tracy Morgan returns to Nashville to apologize for anti-gay rant" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. June 21, 2011.
“I am certain, however, that those responsible for the murder of millions of Germans will never be brought to justice.”

Source : "Why? New Eichmann Notes Try to Explain" by Roger Cohen, www.nytimes.com. August 13, 1999.
“Scholars have found that references to Christ in Josephus were deliberately planted in the translation long after it was written, and the Latin references to Christ are not to a person of that name. In the Dead Sea Scrolls there was mention of a particular "teacher of righteousness" who had characteristics somewhat like those attributed to Christ, but it might easily have been someone else.”
“Any idiot can get an airplane off the ground, but an aviator earns his keep by bringing it back anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances that man and God can dream up.”
“Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all have a different God. Why cannot we have one of our own?”

Source : Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”
“I believe there's nothing I can't accomplish.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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