Kamasi Washington Quotes

The strength of a culture depends on its capacity to open itself up to other cultures, to integrate itself into them and to integrate them into it.

You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone.

The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge.

As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am in more than one sense a product of both the Chinese and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict.

I don't think you lose culture because you act different cultures.

The culture of Greece is not the same as the culture of Germany, and to fuse them into a single unit is extremely difficult.

I am hopeful that the concept of 'cultural appropriation' is a passing fad: people with different backgrounds rubbing up against each other and exchanging ideas and practices is self-evidently one of the most productive, fascinating aspects of modern urban life.

Literally everything good about this culture comes from mixing.

England really is at the forefront of being a melting pot of all cultures.

I'm a fan of mixing cultures together.

Cities are a melting pot for different ideas, and diversity brings a high-energy rhythm that I don't think we'd know was gone until it was too late.

We are taking our culture and suturing it to America. Like gum on the bottom of a shoe, we are not going to disappear. Unlike other peoples who totally assimilated, we are more interested in co-assimilation.

I think one can live in American society with a certain cultural heritage, whether it's an African heritage or other, European,what have you, and still absorb a great deal of this culture. There is always cultural assimilation.

I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'

The Hispanic culture is finding its way into the American culture. Places like Miami are going to be centers for that influence - places like Los Angeles and, certainly, cities in Texas.

I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.

The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.

I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.

Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend we're all living in different worlds because we're on different continents.

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.

I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently.

We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization.

Assimilation is what has made America great.

The Melting Pot