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...
In Demons of the Flesh, Zeena describes how Shiva and Shakti are actually ‘two sides of the same deity’. The goal of the initiate on the left-hand path is to become ‘this bisexual twin godhead’ and activate a state of perceptual sexual ecstas...
Two things are to be remembered: that a man whose opinions and theories are worth studying may be presumed to have had some intelligence, but that no man is likely to have arrived at complete and final truth on any subject whatever. When an intellige...
The properties of mind are not purely mental: They are shaped in crucial ways by the body and brain and how the body can function in everyday life. The embodied mind is thus very much of this world. Our flesh is inseparable from what Merleau-Ponty ca...
If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is.
Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.
The best way to demonstrate the values of a western democracy is you put Osama bin Laden on trial; you challenge what he says.
Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.
My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.
Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity. . . . We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.
I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West.
As is known worldwide, Japan has tried to catch up with the western countries since the beginning of this century by importing science from them.
We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue.
I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.
Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about this particular man and his story?
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.
I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.
The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.
This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other.
