“Disagreement is not disloyalty. In a healthy culture, people can argue about ideas.”— Arthur C. Brooks
“The significance of cultural behavior is not exhausted when we have clearly understood that it is local, man-made, and hugely variable.”— Ruth Benedict
“Literature is a vital part of the culture; it is one of the ways in which a society constitutes itself.”— M. H. Abrams
“People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.”— Chinua Achebe
“Hospitality is the one and only virtue of the Arab; it is the outcome of the solitude of their lives and the grand feature of the race.”— James Theodore Bent
“I have given the city a festive image. We have Taste of Chicago, we have ChicagoFest, we have all the neighborhood fests.”— Jane Byrne