Quotes About Culture

We kept everything: every major event that's happened to African-Americans since 1945, with 'Ebony' as a repository for all those photographs and as a voice for all that happened.

I think there's no city quite like New York, and I've seen most of the developed cities of the world. I admire this place, its energy. It's the repository of so much history and culture and diversity.

I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.

I would like to represent the face of Korea; so that people know there is a Choi Si-won in Korea.

Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America.

I feel that its important for me to be out there and to represent the face. At the same time, for me as an individual, I think the Asian-American face can be crowded with the American identity.

I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.

'Livin' la Vida Loca' is not Latin music. It does not represent Latin music.

I'm a black American, and I'm proud to represent who and where I'm from - unapologetically. There's no shame in my game.

It means the world to me to represent the Hispanic community.

It's such an honor to just represent the U.S. in the country where my parents immigrated from, and just this whole process has been amazing, and this journey has been so fun and full of so many memories that I will hold on to for the rest of my life.

I feel like I can represent both countries, in a way, because I have a Korea face, but I was born and raised in the States.

Lewis Booth and Derrick Kuzak represent the very best of Ford and our culture and built a legacy of leadership, integrity and commitment to excellence that will benefit us for years to come.

I want to be able to work on a project that will give people around the world the chance to represent their own people, their own culture, their own stories, rather than just Hollywood - really, you know, dominated Hollywood. And that's a dream of mine.

I do fairly represent Middle Eastern women.

I've been in the game for 30 years and I came to represent.

Realizing that they can't get their agenda across: against religious liberty, against a culture of life, they can't get those issues across through the legislature, as people respond and their elected officials represent them, so they attempt to do it through the courts.

Like my colleague, I represent a large Assyrian community in central California, one of the largest concentrations of Assyrian Americans anywhere in the United States.

I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.

For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

The music that I represent and helped to create and establish was born in Jamaica.

Pot lucks are fun, especially when you encourage your guests to bring dishes that represent their families or cultures.

'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.

I didn't want to represent any negative side of the country where I was born and raised.