“Work! Look at the secrets to success, look at your family, your community, your culture, take a look at what they have done to be successful and don't fool yourself. Don't think that you are going to get success on discount.” ThinkingLooksDoneCultureCommunitySecretSuccessfulFoolOur FamilyBeing SuccessfulDiscounts Author:Eric Thomas
“Gangs have always existed - they are primarily a community a young men trying to find intensity, meaning, a path to the outer world (outside of home) that most tribal groupings addressed with rituals, rites of passage, initiation ceremonies. We’ve lost this knowledge as a culture.” MenWorldTryingHomeYoungCultureLostCommunityPathYoung ManRitualIntensityPassagesCeremonyGangRiteInitiationOuter WorldsRite Of Passage Author:Luis J. Rodriguez
“People forget that art is not just a piece of entertainment. It is the place where we collectively declare our values and then act on them. That's one of the most powerful things we have as a community: our culture and our art. And it's the intersection between life and how people deal with life. It's the most important thing we do.” PeopleArtImportantValuesCultureCommunityForgetDealsPowerfulPiecesArt IsImportant ThingsEntertainmentMost PowerfulIntersections Author:Wendell Pierce
“It was intimidating to play a deaf character. There's a whole culture in the deaf community and I really wanted to know a lot about that and honor it in the work.” KnowsPlayWholeCharacterWantedCultureCommunityHonorDeafIntimidating Author:Piper Perabo
“As for major obstacles keeping young Latinos from becoming filmmakers, I think our communities are still coming into their identities as storytellers. It's such an important identity to reclaim - it's how our ancestors kept our cultures alive. But a long history of silencing, invisibility, and marginalization has kept generations of Latinos from believing in themselves, from seeing themselves as agents of their own lives. I think there needs to be a focus on this aspect to help cultivate young Latinas to see themselves as cultural producers and defenders.” ThinkingNeedsBelieveLongStillsImportantHelpingYoungCultureCommunityFocusAliveSeeingGenerationsIdentityBecomingMajorsAspectObstaclesProducersAgentsFilmmakerAncestorStorytellerLatinoOur CommunityDefendersInvisibilityLatinaMarginalizationSilencing Author:Aurora Guerrero
“I believe in Mexico there's a big culture of moviegoing, both studio and indie. I think here in the US that's not the case because Latino communities don't have access to indie films. If you go into communities of color you will only find the big theater chains which only play the blockbuster genre films.” IfsThinkingBelievePlayBigsFilmCultureI BelieveCommunityCasesColorTheaterStudiosI Believe InAccessChainsGenreMexicoBelieve In MeLatinoBlockbusterIndie Films Author:Aurora Guerrero
“There isn't a scientific community. It is a culture. It is a very undisciplined organization.” CultureCommunityOrganizationUndisciplined Author:Isidor Isaac Rabi
“Of all the arts, music is the one communal art. It requires for its existence extensive cooperation and organization...Singing together the greatest choral music of all time is the surest way of developing in a community that sense of quality and reverence for beauty, which is the basis of a musical culture...Entertainment has its place in life just as candies and cocktails have, but health is not built on such a diet alone, nor culture exclusively on amusement.” WayArtTogetherCultureCommunityExistenceQualityMusic IsSingingBuiltOrganizationBasesMusicalEntertainmentAll TimeDevelopingDietsCooperationReverenceCandyAmusementCocktailsArt MusicPlace In LifeSinging TogetherChoral Music Author:Edgard Varese
“The [Kwanzaa] holiday, then will of necessity, be engaged as an ancient and living cultural tradition which reflects the best of African thought and practice in its reaffirmation of the dignity of the human person in community and culture, the well-being of family and community, the integrity of the environment and our kinship with it, and the rich resource and meaning of a people's culture.” PeopleHumansWellsPersonsCultureCommunityPracticeRichEnvironmentIntegrityResourcesTraditionDignityAncientWell BeingEngagedHolidayKinshipKwanzaa Author:Maulana Karenga
“Being Latina means I have culture I guess. We party together, cry together, and cook together. Or at least my family does as much as we can. We know where we're from and we have a certain kind of rhythm and understanding. Togetherness. As I get older it becomes more apparent that there is a community in this industry that is working together to rise up and fight against the misinterpretation of Hispanic and what it means to be a Latino-American nowadays.” KnowsKindMeanDoeTogetherCertainCultureFightingUnderstandingCommunityPartyCryIndustryMy FamilyRhythmCooksWorking TogetherTogethernessLatinoHispanicLatinaMisinterpretation Author:Alicia Sixtos
“Frontline love. It is our one hope for breaking down barriers and for restoring the sense of community, of caring for one another, that our decadent, impersonalized culture has sucked out of us.” CultureCommunityCaringBarriersBreaking DownRestoringFrontlineBreaking Down Barriers Book:Loving God Source: Loving God
“One of the facets of growing up the way I did, I never had the experience of being solely in the black community. Even my family, my mother is what they call Creole, so she's part French, part black, and grew up in Louisiana. It's a very specific kind of blackness that is different than what is traditionally thought of as the black community and black culture. So, I never felt a part of whatever that was.” WayKindDifferentMotherCultureFeltBlackCommunityGrowing UpGrowingGrewGrew UpMy FamilyBlacknessFacetsLouisianaBlack CommunityBlack CultureCreole Author:Justin Simien