Kwame Anthony Appiah Quotes

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Conversation doesn't have to lead to consensus about anything especially not values; it's enough that it helps people get used to one another

Kwame Anthony Appiah
A value is like a fax machine: it's not much use if you're the only one who has one.

Kwame Anthony Appiah
There are no races: there is nothing in the world that can do all we ask race to do for us.

Kwame Anthony Appiah
Cultures are made of continuities and changes, and the identity of a society can survive through these changes. Societies without change aren't authentic; they're just dead.

Kwame Anthony Appiah
Cultures are made of continuities and changes, and the identity of a society can survive through these changes. Societies without change aren't authentic; they're just dead

Kwame Anthony Appiah
The challenge, then, is to take minds and hearts formed over the long millennia of living in local troops and equip them with ideas and institutions that will allow us to live together as the global tribe we have become.

Kwame Anthony Appiah
"Race" disables us because it proposes as a basis for common action the illusion that black (and white and yellow) people are fundamentally allied by nature and, thus, without effort; it leaves us unprepared, therefore, to handle the "interracial" conflicts that arise from the very different situations of black (and white and yellow) people in different parts of the economy and of the world.

Kwame Anthony Appiah