#culture

Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better. ↗

— C. J. Cherryh

#biology #conditions #culture #how #living

I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.' ↗

— Tommy Chong

#always #black #brother #considered #culture

My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#books #cool #culture #desire #emotion

That the potential to become Level 5 exists in you and me and the people we work with and that it is then a process or a journey to nurture that seed... in a culture by and large that doesn't reinforce it. ↗

— James Collins

#culture #exists #journey #large #level

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#american youth #culture #decade #period #teenage

High school is such a shared experience in North American culture. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#american culture #culture #experience #high #high school

With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#courage #culture #different world #faith #generations

It’s quite odd, in a land of so many different cultures, religions, ethnicity's, languages, and faces to match them all, that my white face under a scarf should cause such confusion. For some reason, my explanation of being “white” solidifies my American-ness in their minds. It shouldn’t be that way, but it is. I don’t know how to fix it. I guess I’ll just go on stumping a while longer. Maybe someday scientists will come up with a cure. ↗

— Theresa McCune

#ethnicity #hijab #islam #race #religion

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#best #culture #habit #knowing #pleased

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#american culture #between #crime #culture #devastation