If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?
Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire.
All around the Mediterranean you'll find cultures that believe men can't control themselves and shouldn't have to try.
We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.
I'm not saying that people on welfare don't contribute in their own way, but as many as possible should be encouraged to be economically active as well as socially and culturally active.
Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?
People aren't used to thinking of cultural forms spreading out across the full range of formal interactions - or what is called the 'text' in literary terms.
The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.
We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.
In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.
Gay TV has been immensely important in transforming American culture in a more gay-positive direction.
I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
With what's happened in the world the last three years, it's easier to see why it's become popular again to diminish and revile Arabs and Muslims in American popular culture.
We have created a culture of leadership "development" in the Church at the expense of ignore the ministry of the Church to making disciples.
There's something very misleading about the literary culture that looks at writers in their 30s and calls them 'budding' or 'promising', when in fact they're peaking.
A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.
There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.
I could not cherish London and not value Jewish London. The contribution of Jews to London is immense - politically, economically, culturally, intellectually, philanthropically, artistically.
Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience.
