Rat/culture/fiction

Famous quotes containing the words rat, culture and/or fiction:

“When a rat crosses a street, everyone shouts and beats it.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)

“I write fiction and I’m told it’s autobiography, I write autobiography and I’m told it’s fiction, so since I’m so dim and they’re so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn’t.”
—Philip Roth (b. 1933)