Wilson Harris: Culture

Wilson Harris was Guyanese writer. Explore interesting quotes on culture.

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“In America today there are many “colored” people who are designated “black” or “African.” Whereas they are mixed with the West—with the so-called whites who represent the West—in blood and spirit. This is a fateful, hidden matter though we do not see it as such. It may be partly responsible for deadly, one-sided polarizations in cultures around the globe that see themselves similarly locked into racial investitures.”

Interview with Wilson Harris (2003)

“It is not only the gulf between religions and cultures that plaques us today. There is the widening gulf between the rich and the poor, the world of plenty and the world of famine. We may think we can make a good patch work or mechanical arrangement to ameliorate such a division. But this I feel is an illusion. There is no economic solution to the ills of the world until the arts of originality - arts that are driven by mysterious strangeness - open the partialities and bias of tradition in ways that address the very core of our pre-possessions.”

pg. 251.
The Unfinished Genesis of the Imagination (1999)

“Cross-culturality differs radically from multiculturality. There is no creative and re-creative sharing of dimensions in multiculturality.”

Interview with Wilson Harris (2003)