West Quotes

We face neither East nor West: we face forward.

Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to this hemisphere. The slave ships brought only African people and most of us took the semblance of nationality from the places where slave ships dropped us off.

I believe in and love the populist, nationalist, antiglobalist rebellion happening all over the West.

You may be talented but you're not Kanye West.

Be Americans. Let there be no sectionalism, no North, South, East or West. You are all dependent on one another and should be one in union. In one word, be a nation. Be Americans, and be true to yourselves.

In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.

If the earth were flat from east to west, the stars would rise as soon for westerners as for orientals, which is false. Also, if the earth were flat from north to south and vice versa, the stars which were always visible to anyone would continue to be so wherever he went, which is false. But it seems flat to human sight because it is so extensive.

One of the tricks of the west is to use or create images, they create images of a person who doesn't go along with their views and then they make certain that this image is distasteful, and then anything that that person has to say from thereon, from thereon in, is rejected.

It’s crazy to think North West can already read better than Kendall Jenner.

Heaven has a north and a south and an east and a west. Consequently, it must be a planet.

I often wonder why the West is much more interested in aid deliveries than in fair trade, for example. The fair exchange of goods would place far more money into the hands of the affected people than relief operations.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music

We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.

I've just grown a little disappointed with 'Muppets in the Old West', 'Muppets Under Water' and all these weird concept movies. I just want to go take it back to the early 80's, when it was about the Muppets trying to put on a show. That's what I'm trying to bring back.

A Republican in my state of Arkansas feels about as out of place as Michael Vick at the West Minister dog show.

We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.

It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led West.

So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don't understand how incredibly vulnerable it is.

The Great Convergence: Asia, the West and the Logic of One World.

West Africa today is just a quarry of paving stones for Hell, and those stones were cemented in place with

Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music.

We are going to win and the industrial West is going to lose out; there's not much you can do about it because the reasons for your failure are within yourselves.

In the West many Christians have an abundance of material possessions, yet they live in a backslidden state.

In traditional societies, nature was seen as one’s wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court? MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it.

I am not anti-west, I am PRO PAKISTAN

The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition

Some goin' east; and-a some goin' west, Some stand aside to try their best. Some livin' big, but the most is livin' small. They just can't even find no food at all.

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

North was only a direction indicated by a compass--if a man had one, that is, for otherwise there was no north or south or east or west; there was only the brooding desolation.

You're brainwashed in the West with equal temperament, so it's quite hard for people who like following rules to get outside of that and see what you can do. But for me it's easy because I don't work like that. I work intuitively.

I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.

The West remains obsessed by the caste system.

The West is anything but altruistic.

When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.

Muslims, who have a completely different value system, come to the West, then they should accept that there are certain basic values in the West intrinsic to our culture. Just as I wouldn't suggest that any Westerner walk down the streets of Saudi Arabia in a bikini.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World

You see in Once Upon a Time in the West the whole film moves around her [Claudia Cardinale]. If you take her out, there's no more film. She's the central motor of the entire happening.

African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West.

You don’t need miracles in the west. You have insurance.

I would rather die going to the west than live by staying in the east.

Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.

It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi.

I really wanna work with Kanye West. He's one of the few people I haven't got to work with yet that I really wanted to.

I have redefined the so-called East-West relationship as essentially one of conflict, while it had previously been treated in romantic terms.

The West is not in the West. It is a project, not a place.