"Culture is people's own vision of themselves in relation to the world, created by themselves through a blood-continuity of time and space. Political invasion, via cultural colonialism, weakens the creative will of the conquered by destroying the people's coherent vision of themselves. Guns, police, and the invader's law help in this process; but imposition of alien cultural symbols and religious ideas are the most effective tools, in the long run, for obliterating or distorting a people's self-image--because they are aimed at the most intimate parts of human beings: sex and the spirit."
--From the Chapter entitled, The Original Black Mother, in the book The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth by Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor
