Quotes About Culture

I love hip hop. It's such an appendage for me. It's something that's always shaped my experience out in the world.

It's important to love in hip hop.

Hip hop helped me learn about a whole bunch of American culture.

Really, I listen to more hip hop probably than most other things. That's where I get a lot of my influence from because it's so eclectic. So that's what I love.

I can always tell the demographic that will probably recognize me - white dudes, sort of skater-y hip hop white dudes, and working class black dudes.

For me growing up when hip hop was forming and maturing and coming into its own, I just felt I was a part of something really exciting. I was a part of it as a consumer.

Don't do this ageism thing in Hip Hop. Don't be an OG and tell me these young, rich cats ain't doing it right. Don't tell me that, man.

I listen to R&B and Hip Hop.

Hip hop is the way it is because of America.

For those of us who grew in the early hip hop era, that music shaped us in a way to be in a position to express ourselves.

You definitely will not hear any hip hop at my show. Not that I don't think there's an art to that, but it's not for me.

As we continue our fight to advance civil rights and racial justice, we need to not only recognize but celebrate how Hip Hop and Black Americans have given so much to our culture and our country.

Through work, education, and culture, I will give hope to our country.

What I really hoped to do with my work was to at least be able to define my relationship to race.

Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.

I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.

I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.

Actually, my mother turned me on to the blues. We had Lightnin' Hopkins as well as Elvis Presley records.

I've been taking tabla lessons and they've helped expand my rhythmic horizons.

My children have been all over the world, and I think it's so good for them: expanding their horizons and imagination and seeing how other people live.

In Serbia, it is amazing pressure. When we lose a game, it is like somebody dies. It is really horrible.

My children don't even know who Fairuz is - a horrifying thought.

Great horror films don't win Academy Awards.

There are classic horror films that, if you are a human being in this world, you have to have seen. They've become a part of our culture.