Cultural Representation Quotes

#1. If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves.

Junot Diaz

#2. In the spirit of Trickster, here's to turning representation against itself in the fight for survivance, for f"a new consciousness of coexistence," for a new Turtle Island.

Pauline Turner Strong

#3. Among the languages of American Indians there is no word for 'art,' because for Indians everything is art.

Huston Smith

#4. Hip-Hop's cultural movement is much larger than the corporate representation. The images most of hip-hop's critics point to are those manufactured by major corporations whether on television, via Viacom, or on the radio, via Radio One and Clear Channel.

Bakari Kitwana

#5. The important thing is to dare to dream big, then take action to make it come true.

Joe Girard

#6. Despite the limitations and problems inherent to photographic representation (and especially the representation of politics), it remains for me the most powerful and engaging medium today - one central to the development of cultural dialogue.

Richard Misrach

#7. So much of our cultural representation of what an investigative journalist looks like, in movies and pop culture, is about this really testosterone-filled dude screaming, "Give me what you got!" I didn't see myself as someone who would be good at or comfortable with that.

Sarah Stillman

#8. Love brought me that far by the hand, without The slightest doubt or irony, dry-eyed And knowledgeable, contrary as be damned; Then just kept standing there, not letting go.

Seamus Heaney

#9. The people that keep coming back every year are diehards. I'll go out there to host a panel and I know half of the audience. I see them, every year, and they come back for more because they believe in us. That's one of the coolest things.

Zachary Levi

#10. Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Thomas Browne

#11. The carnations in his coat were drooping with the cold, he noticed, their red glory all over.

Willa Cather

#12. I'm quite fond of Switzerland. I love Switzerland.

James Balog