Quotes About Cultural Appropriation

#1. Cultural appropriation is especially egregious when it involves the co-optation of spiritual ceremonies and the inappropriate use of lands deemed sacred by Native peoples.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

#2. Cts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for one's own use - need not be synonymous with exploitation. This is especially true of cultural appropriation. The "use" one makes of what is appropriated is the crucial factor.

Bell Hooks

#3. 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

#4. 'Moxie' is a name that was created by an American for the first national soft drink and then went on to mean chutzpah, and that's nice.

Penn Jillette

#5. There's a big difference between can't and won't.

Victoria Schwab

#6. Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.

Charles Bukowski

#7. I have work to do as a human being.

Maria Thayer

#8. I wanted to join the Army the sign said 'Be All That You Can Be', they told me it wasn't enough.

Jay London

#9. Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel.

Elton John

#10. If I had a job pitching for the Giants, I probably wouldn't be manning my own Twitter account.

Wiley Wiggins

#11. I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again ...

Charlotte Alington Barnard

#12. Indiana was such a devout disciple of Shakti that she had once considered taking her name until her father, Blake Jackson, managed to convince her that a Hindu goddess's name was not appropriate for a tall, voluptuous blond American with the looks of an inflatable doll.

Isabel Allende

#13. The Coven of the Articulate - A modern slang term popular among the Undead for the vampires whose stories appear in the Vampire Chronicles - particularly Louis, Lestat, Pandora, Marius, and Armand.

Anne Rice

#14. When I started school in 1958 there were no books written by Aboriginals in the school system and everything about Native life was written by white people through their eyes.

Now, Aboriginal writers can tell their stories. They have always been our narratives to tell, not others.

Rick Revelle

#15. I'm a firm believer that there's no way that a six-year-old should have a helmet on and learn a tackling drill.

John Madden

#16. The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.

Serge Daney

#17. We don't have a lot of men on stage doing flamboyant or theatrical. We have a lot of female pop stars doing it, but where are the guys? Where's the classic pop-rock showman?

Adam Lambert

#18. A racist notion found in neoshamanic circles is placing high value on indigenous wisdom but not on indigenous people.

S. Kelley Harrell

#19. You do this, you do that You argue left, you argue right You come down, you go up This person says no, you say yes Back and forth You are happy You are really happy

Ikkyu

#20. I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.

Robert Pinsky

#21. When I shop, I only do it when I really have to do it for something. I don't like to try on clothing like that - as much I love looking fly.

Ciara

#22. I seem to be a victim of my own wishes where you are concerned.

Leigh Bardugo