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"I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture."
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"We are what we think about and meditate on. Look around people! America is a buffet of violence, a total immersion."
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"Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves - and other animals."
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"Cultural heritage define the uniqueness of individuals. Appreciate cultural diversity."
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"The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy."
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"Confession. Years ago, I was invited to a cocktail party for an Asian-American networking group. As I introduced myself to a Japanese businessman, I reached out and firmly shook his hand. Much to my embarrassment now, I automatically took my other hand and wrapped our hands in a "hand hug. This is a common gesture of friendship in the South. As his wife approached, however, she appeared appalled and felt disrespected that I was touching her husband. Our cultural differences were marked. Despite this cultural mishap, I was able to redeem myself. We all moved past it and delighted in an interesting conversation. Physical touch is a touchy topic (pun intended), especially when various cultures are involved."
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"We are all artificial and have been unnaturally changed by violence and unwholesome conditioning."
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"Culture and holiness must be made compatible in the environment of the kingdom."
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"Could dump two Chinee down in one of our maria and they would get rich selling rocks to each other while raising twelve kids. Then a Hindu would sell retail stuff he got from them wholesale--below cost at a fat profit. We got along."
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"The traditional Indian mind has been for centuries, and still is, first religious, and then everything else."
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"Once we got out of Jefferson Park, we rolled down the one window that worked so the world would know we had good taste in music."
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"I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture."
Culture
"Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt."
Artist
"I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it."
Day
"Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling."
Force
"My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies."
Baby
"Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point."
Woman
"The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count."
Woman
"The war on drugs is a war against the communities."
War
"We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under."
Truth
"To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain."
Pain
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