“A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.”

“Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it.”

“Death is inevitable. But the meaning people attach to death, its causes and aftermath, is culturally given. Without meaning, without culture making sense of things, life would be impossible.”

“Christ has redeemed the cultural agents, thus transforming culture also.”

“Culture is concerned with the world of values. All cultures are irreducibly value-oriented.”

“Street culture is a culture of containment. Most young people do not realize that it all too often leads to a “dead end”. “Street culture,” as I am using the term, is a counterforce to movement culture. Street culture in contemporary urban reality is synonymous with survival at all costs. This world view is mostly negative, because it demands constant adjustment to circumstances that are often far beyond young people’s control or understanding, such as economics, education, housing, employment, nutrition, law, and so forth.”

“if anything, you may think of me as Adam without his Eve, cast out of the Garden with no hope of ever returning.”