Top 20 Indian Cultural Quotes
#1. West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.
Melanie Fiona
#2. We twentieth-century Mexicans, even those of pure Indian descent, look on the pre-Columbian world as a world on the other side, not only distant in time but across the cultural divide.
Octavio Paz
#3. I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.
Julian Cope
#4. No, no, my friend. You are kind, and you mean well, but you can never understand these things as I do. You've never been oppressed.
S. Alice Callahan
#5. I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.
Sherman Alexie
#6. There is no such thing as a politically correct war.
Ben Carson
#7. Without the Indian Subcontinent, in other words, there could not have been a Vietnam in any cultural or aesthetic sense.
Robert D. Kaplan
#8. I am now gay 'cause I have watched Ronaldo.
Peter Sagal
#9. Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.
Vanessa Paradis
#10. What we deplore is not that the gate of western knowledge was thrown open to Indians, but that such knowledge was imported to India at the sacrifice of our own cultural heritage. What was needed was a proper synthesis between the two systems and not neglect, far less destruction, of the Indian base.
Syama Prasad Mukherjee
#11. Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar
#12. We can recognize and give credit where credit is due, to the debt of taste we owe Europe, but we have taste, too.
Billy Baldwin
#13. There is nothing so banal in the world,' said Ada 'than pitching stones at a hawfinch.
Vladimir Nabokov
#14. By the creative act, however, we are able to reach beyond our own death. This is why creativity is so important and why we need to confront the problem of the relationship between creativity and death.
Rollo May
#16. As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.
Eric Hobsbawm
#17. After 9/11, there was so much distress in America that it led to an inter-cultural breakdown. Some of our communities were targeted. Many of our adults shut themselves off from other cultures. I tried to bring children of Indian and other cultures together in my literature.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#18. A community that engages readers and culturally enabled people to connect, support and harness intellectual and cultural capabilities.
Ashwin Sanghi
#19. I'm sure I went through a stage when I resented being Indian because in every other manner, in terms of cultural reference points and vocabulary and all the rest of it, I was way ahead of everybody else - so the one thing that set me back was being Indian. And I couldn't do anything about it.
Sanjeev Bhaskar
#20. I've written immense love letters that are supposed to be opened over days at a time.
Cary Fukunaga
