Culture
The San Joaquin Valley has been a major influence in American country music, particularly through the "Bakersfield sound". The Valley has been the home to many country music singers such as Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Billy Mize, Red Simpson, The Maddox Brothers and Rose and the Sons of the San Joaquin. The Valley has also produced many famous poets such as Gary Soto, current California Poet Lureate Juan Felipe Herrera, David St. John and Burlee Vang.
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“The genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light. Plain as day, we say. Happy as the day is long. Early to bed, early to rise. American virtues are daylight virtues: honesty, integrity, plain speech. We say yes when we mean yes and no when we mean no, and all else comes from the evil one. America presumes innocence and even the right to happiness.”
—Richard Rodriguez (b. 1944)
“The fact remains that the human being in early childhood learns to consider one or the other aspect of bodily function as evil, shameful, or unsafe. There is not a culture which does not use a combination of these devils to develop, by way of counterpoint, its own style of faith, pride, certainty, and initiative.”
—Erik H. Erikson (1904–1994)
“No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of; you do not know what he is thinking and therefore you do not know what the oppressed and suppressed Negro, by virtue of his condition and circumstance, may give to the world as a surprise.”
—Marcus Garvey (1887–1940)