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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn’t the thing.

When people start dancing, they dance like they don’t know they are doing it.

In India, the films are not looked upon just as entertainment. They’re a way of life.

I think the way the audience takes the Indian film-star is a little different from the way the audience takes the Western star there. We are considered like demi-gods here, and the reason is not because we are better or good, but because there is no other mode of entertainment in India.

I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‘That’s an American’ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.