Harry Belafonte Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• I don't know what America has really learned. We are too quick to do what's expedient on behalf of our culture of greed and hedonism. We're quite prepared to go to conditions of tyranny in order to sustain that culture, and we do it in the name of democracy, when nothing could be more undemocratic. We do it in the name of saving the values of our society, when the way we behave corrupts those values. We do it in the name of God in whom we believe, when in fact we have corrupted our own vision of the Christian journey.

  Harry Belafonte

  Christian, Believe, Journey

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

• Pop culture has none of the vibrancy that you find in the folk culture, where people speak directly to their own experience in the human condition.

  Harry Belafonte

  People, Culture, Vibrancy

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

• My formative years, until I was 12, was all shaped by Jamaican culture, by that economy, by the people in my family, who are agriculturalists, who were plantation workers, who harvested those crops and took them down to the boats run by the United Food Company, to load those ships at night, hence all the songs that I sing that come from that environment.

  Harry Belafonte

  Running, Song, Night

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I am a man who perceives life in a certain way, a man who rejects things that defecate on humankind, who rejects anything that will not give people room for dissent.

  Harry Belafonte

  Men, People, Giving

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