And as journalists we look for differences - differences between countries, cultures, classes, and communities. We're very sensitized to difference, but it's much harder to write about similarities across countries, cultures, classes, and communities...
Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they find themselves in. And contained in the blues is a philosophical system at work. And as part...
African-Americans are always forced to learn the other culture, but the other culture is not forced to learn ours. I went to acting school at Juilliard, and we learned Shakespeare and Shaw, but we never did the work of a single African-American playw...
Kolkata is a musical city. What I like about people here is the lack of diplomacy. Some of the best Indian classical musicians belong to this place. Kolkatans do not go by fashion, but by passion.
It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefore, Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un-Indian city.
All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.
Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.
I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.
As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.
Flying from L.A. to India is an arduous undertaking. I regard myself more as a trans-Atlantic citizen than an Indian.
The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.
If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.
Everything can change, but Indian movies will not change much because we're so used to the dance and songs and everything. Even Americans are getting very attracted to all this.
I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.
When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices.
My dad knows every single accent from being an old Yiddish grandpa to being Indian or Jamaican. It was very cool to grow up with that.
Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.
There is one God, and He made both Indians and white men. We were all made out of the dust of the earth.
