“I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living.” WayStoriesAgeYoungImaginationDealsBoysSawsOur LivesSeeingGrewGrew UpTraditionImportanceStorytellingEncountersVillageMy ImaginationYoung AgeTelling StoriesSierraOral TraditionSierra LeoneSmall Villages Author:Ishmael Beah
“The emphasis on original, individual work in the past years has done a great deal to produce a crop of eccentric fakes and has carried art away from the stream of tradition. Tradition is our heritage of knowledge and experience. We can't get along without it.” YearsArtDonePastIndividualDealsProduceTraditionOriginalsFakeStreamsHeritageEmphasisCropsEccentricKnowledge And ExperienceIndividual Work Author:John French Sloan
“Today we hear a great deal about Organizational Men, Mass Culture, Conformity, the Lonely Crowd, the Power Elite and its Conspiracy of Mediocrity. We forget that the very volume of this criticism is an indication that our society is still radically pluralistic. Not only are there plenty of exceptionalists who take exception to the stereotyping of the mass culture but that very string of epithets comes from a series of books that have been recent best-sellers, symptoms of a popular, living tradition of dissent from things as they are.” MenHas BeensStillsBookTodayCultureForgetDealsMassTraditionCriticismLonelySeriesCrowdsPlentyExceptionOur SocietyStringsConformityMediocrityConspiracyElitesVolumeStereotypeSymptomsDissentIndicationSellersOrganizationalBest SellersMass CultureEpithet Author:Kenneth Rexroth
“If you want to know the people of a nation, I am sure you can judge a great deal more about them from their cooking and eating traditions than you can from the words and actions of their public officials.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantActionNationsDealsFoodJudgingEatingTraditionCookingOfficialsCulinaryWords And ActionsPublic OfficialsCooking And Eating Author:Peter Kropotkin
“African tradition deals with life as an experience to be lived. In many respects, it is much like the Eastern philosophies in that we see ourselves as a part of a life force; we are joined, for instance, to the air, to the earth. We are part of the whole-life process. We live in accordance with, in a kind of correspondence with the rest of the world as a whole. And therefore living becomes an experience, rather than a problem, no matter how bad or how painful it may be.” WorldKindMayMatterPhilosophyWholeProblemEarthForceProcessDealsAirTraditionPainfulWhole LifeInstanceOnenessEasternCorrespondenceEastern Philosophy Book:Conversations with Audre Lorde Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde
“As you know, the South is known for its hospitality, traditions, football, pageants, and food. Football is almost like a religion here. People say their priorities are faith, family, and then football. People eat, breathe, and sleep it in the South. Its a huge deal.” PeopleKnowsSleepDealsKnownFootballHugeTraditionSouthBreathePrioritiesHospitalityPageant Author:Katherine Webb