“That's why we sail. So our children can grow up and be proud of whom they are. We are healing our souls by reconnecting to our ancestors. As we voyage we are creating new stories within the tradition of the old stories, we are literally creating a new culture out of the old.” ChildrenSoulStoriesCultureGrowsHealingGrowing UpProudTravelCreatingTraditionOur ChildrenAncestorSailBe ProudSailingVoyagesSpiritual HealingHawaiiansNew CulturesReconnectingNavigators Author:Nainoa Thompson
“the voices of our ancestors telling of our glorious past, our culture, and what it means to be an Indian.” MeanPastCultureVoiceListeningIndianGloriousAncestor Author:Allen Sapp
“Centuries from now our great-great-great-grandchildren will look back at us with amazement at how we could allow such a precious achievement of human culture as the telling of a story to be shattered into smithereens by commercials, the same amazement we feel today when we look at our ancestors for whom slavery, capital punishment, burning of witches, and the inquisition were acceptable everyday events.” FeelsHumansLooksStoriesTodayFilmCultureCenturyEventsAchievementHollywoodSlaveryEverydayPunishmentBurningWitchAncestorAcceptableGrandchildrenShatteredAmazementCapital PunishmentInquisitionGreat Grandchildren Author:Werner Herzog
“Childbirth takes place at the intersection of time; in all cultures it links past, present and future. In traditional cultures birth unites the world of 'now' with the world of the ancestors, and is part of the great tree of life extending in time and eternity.” WorldPastCultureTreeBirthEternityTraditionalLinksAncestorChildbirthExtendingPast PresentPast Present And FutureIntersectionsTree Of Life Author:Sheila Kitzinger
“In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves historians and biographers. But in my culture the past lives. My people feel this way in part because death does not separate us from our ancestors.” PeopleWayFeelsDoePastCultureAnimalWestHistorianAncestorPast LifeBiographers Author:Miriam Makeba
“Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after theyre dead.” WayCultureParentReligiousWorshipEthicsChineseCodeAncestorConfucianismChinese CultureCode Of EthicsAncestor Worship Author:David Henry Hwang
“The equilibrium you admire in me is an unstable one, difficult to maintain. My inner life was split early between the call of the Ancestors and the call of Europe, between the exigencies of black-African culture and those of modern life.” CultureDifficultBlackModernEuropeAdmireAncestorSplitsModern LifeInner LifeEquilibriumUnstableAfrican Culture Author:Leopold Sedar Senghor