“Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.”

Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn’t run in races! Come on!

Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?

For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.

There are a lot of movies out there that I would hate to be paid to do, some real demeaning, real woman-denigrating stuff. It is up to women to change their roles. They are going to have to write the stuff and do it. And they will.

Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn’t help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?

When people look only at the surface and that satisfies them and they think from that surface they see, that is to be truly blind.

Nature is neither reasonable nor just. Nature is exact.

Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.

Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.

We don’t need no culture except revolutionary culture. What we mean by that is a culture that will free you.

The whole world recognizes Russia’s cultural achievements. It is impossible to imagine the world culture without Russian culture, without our music and literature.

Sports help us to spread a culture of encounter and solidarity.

China is a great country with a great culture, populated by fascinating, industrious and talented people.

If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other.

Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.