Quotes About Culture

Blackness remains the coat you can't take off.

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

I've grown up with Bollywood, and I continue to enjoy it. But boxing remains my passion.

My head is in India, yet my body remains in Britain. I straddle the world like a colossus. Like a 5ft. 7in. colossus.

Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.

Reading literature remains a civilising activity, no matter that it's literature in which people do and say abominable things and the author curses like the very devil. What's at issue is how we describe the way the civilising works.

I know Priyanka Chopra personally. She is a cultured, decent and educated person and the fact remains that she is an Indian.

Italian football remains a very successful product, which has inspired people all over the world.

Where Americans might coo over a child's most inane remark to boost his confidence, middle-class French parents teach their kids to be concise and amusing, to keep everyone listening.

I think 'Drag Race' is a remarkable phenomenon and we won't even be able to see the impact of it until many years later.

This country is filled with remarkable people. One of my best friend's families is from Iran, and they're the most American family of all time. Some of the best people that I've ever met are immigrants.

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

For all of her influence on popular culture, and the remarkable performances she left behind, perhaps Farrah Fawcett's greatest legacy was her raw, intimate, honest portrait of a woman fighting for her life - against cancer.

The 'stuff' in novels touches on every aspect of the world and people's lives. That's what makes it so remarkable just how little there is in the novel about the world of money.

'Beloved' by Toni Morrison. I think I read it first in college and have read it every few years since. The language itself is remarkable. I don't know that I've read a book that explains America so well.

My mother-in-law's from Norway, and she's always liked old-school remedies.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

I don't have any beauty shop memories. I remember the barber shop.

If you remember the '90s, you weren't there.

The ancient world is always accessible, no matter what culture you come from. I remember when I was growing up in India and I read the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey.'

I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff.

I remember when I heard 'Jessie's Girl' for the first time, I was like, 'This is so applicable to lesbians!'

I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.

There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we would have these great parties at the house with congas and bongos and African drums, and it was amazing. It wasn't until years later that I found out that they were actually Black Panther meetings.