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My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Culture Doing Family Me Parents Saying Service Taught

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I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Culture Enslaved Grew Love Natural Natural World Out People Which World I Love

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We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.

~Alice Waters

Topics: Agriculture Bring Children Connects Culture Food New Relationship Them

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We eat every day, and if we do it in a way that doesn't recognize value, it's contributing to the destruction of our culture and of agriculture. But if it's done with a focus and care, it can be a wonderful thing. It changes the quality of your life.

~Alice Waters

Topics: Agriculture Care Changes Contributing Culture Day Destruction Done Eat Every Every Day Focus Life Our Quality Recognize Thing Value Way Wonderful Wonderful Thing Your

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I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.

~Alice Waters

Topics: Agriculture Culture Feel Food Help Help People Obligation People Relation Relationship Understand I Feel

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Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative.

~Alice Waters

Topics: Beatles Creative Culture Food International Inventive Like Listening Positive Very

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I think America's food culture is embedded in fast-food culture. And the real question that we have is: How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world? Of course, it's very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown up eating fast food and the values that go with that.

~Alice Waters

Topics: America Children Course Culture Difficult Eating Embedded Fast Fast Food Fast-Food Food Go Going Grown How Question Real Teach Think Up Values Very World I Think

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There is hope for humanity, but in order for us to get there, we really have to interrogate not just what it takes to change laws, but what it takes to change culture that supports laws that uplift humanity and also supports laws that serve to denigrate it.

~Alicia Garza

Topics: Also Change Culture Denigrate Get Hope Humanity Just Laws Order Really Serve Supports Takes Uplift Us

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If you're quiet, knowing that there's a culture of racism inside most police departments, and you're not saying anything, you are on the wrong side of history.

~Alicia Garza

Topics: Anything Culture Departments History Inside Knowing Most Police Quiet Racism Saying Side Wrong Wrong Side You

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Both Alton Sterling and Philando Castile had guns on them, which is part of their Second Amendment right. It is a part of a culture that is largely protected by special-interest groups like the N.R.A., but the right to bear arms, it seems, only exists for white people.

~Alicia Garza

Topics: Amendment Arms Bear Both Culture Exists Groups Guns Had Largely Like Only Part People Protected Right Second Second Amendment Seems Them Which White

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