Cultural Separation Quotes

I'd say it's even harder to cater to Hispanics than to the lesbian or gay community. We're so culturally separated: Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, Venezuelans. We're all so different.

Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization

Either we want to have segregation or integration. And if we don't want segregation, then we need to get rid of channels like BET and the BET Awards and the Image Awards, where you're only awarded if you're black.

Separation in culture and arts does nobody any favors except for the people in power. That's just it... So I feel like I'm in the business of challenging that narrative.

How can a Negro say America is his nation? He was brought here in chains; he was put in slavery an worked like a mule for three hundred years; he was separated from his land, his culture, his God, his language!

We have no concern with South America. We can have no well-founded political sympathy with them. We are sprung from different stock.

The social scene in Daytona Beach was simple. The white cats surf, and the blacks play music.

All divisions are man-made.

Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated.

If the American Negro is to have a culture of his own he will have to leave America to get it.

Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life.

We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.

As I went between the Islamic Society in my college and university, the mosque, the halal takeaway, and visited the homes of my male Muslim friends, it was entirely possible for me to get through my day without interacting in any meaningful way with a single non-Muslim.

My family is from Russia and Poland. We never had that thing with the German Jews.

Any red woman who is living with a white man must return to her people, and must leave her children with the husband, so that all nations will be pure in their blood

I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.

I have a major problem with the division that occurs because of the division of language.

In Japan, artists and fans are rather far apart from each other.

I believe in Allah and in peace. I don't try to move into white neighborhoods... I don’t want to marry a white woman. I was baptized when I was 12, but I didn’t know what I was doing. I’m not a Christian anymore. I know where I’m going and I know the truth and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

Every leaving of a Jewish community is a most difficult thing.

When somebody takes a child from their native culture, that is in itself an act of aggression.

I lived in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s. It was, for a Westerner, pretty idyllic. There were the religious police; there were the rules; there were the prayer times. But it was as if we were existing in two separate universes. The Westerners were just allowed to get on with their way of life.

The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.

We go where our family goes. We go where our friends are, and because our social networks are so segregated by race, we end up with what we have. We also find that, you know, if you're immigrants, you're not part of that history.

The world's five thousand extant languages are products of our shared ability, but the five thousand cultures they create are separate from each other.