Multivocal Ethnography Quotes & Sayings

The brain is probably the most mysterious subject there is. — Susumu Tonegawa

The maintenance of secrecy in the matter, the confining all knowledge of it for a time to the place where the homicide occurred, the quarter-deck cabin; in these particulars lurked some resemblance to the policy adopted in those tragedies of the palace which have occurred more than once in the capital founded by Peter the Barbarian. — Herman Melville

Among the languages of American Indians there is no word for 'art,' because for Indians everything is art. — Huston Smith

A writer's promise is like a tiger's smile — Lytton Strachey

They have forgotten the scale of theft that enriched them in slavery; the terror that allowed them, for a century, to pilfer the vote; the segregationist policy that gave them their suburbs. They have forgotten, because to remember would tumble them out of the beautiful Dream and force them to live down here with us, down here in the world. — Ta-Nehisi Coates