We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly.
Mara Brock Akil
I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.
Jessica Alba
You have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.
Mitch Albom
People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.
You have to work at creating your own culture.
You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.
Sherman Alexie
I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.
I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.
Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more than we would tolerate... →
Ayaan Hirsi Ali