Quotes About Culture

I didn't have that many black people in my life, so I had to sort of search them out. And I didn't grow up in America, but I identified as much with their writing about the black experience as I did with their writing about the human experience.

Never have I once identified myself as white.

Foreign films have helped me because I've become identified with international stars.

I just grew up in the States, so I feel like I identify more with the American culture.

I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.

You can be an American or an Englishman or Canadian and be a Parisian. It's a very admirable culture, and people want to identify with it.

People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.

I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood.

I'm proud to be Canadian. But I identify as being a British mum.

We love rom-coms, but it's getting to where we don't identify with any of the women in them.

I'm a first-generation kid in this country. I so identify with America and its culture. I'm a citizen, I was born here. I'm American. At the same time, like most first-generation kids, I have this other identity to another country back home, which is India.

While I resonate deeply with my maternal cultural heritage, I identify as American.

A lot of kids can't identify with the things I've done and where I'm from and who I am as an individual. That's why I've tried to be a person and live my life in a way that can be identified by all cultures.

I certainly think that my music is a response to my experience as a person who doesn't identify as straight, as a person who grew up American.

Black culture, to me, is so important and I identify with young black women.

I am a South Tyrolean. I identify with this land.

I'm a real brother. I'm an East Coast dude. I have the experiences that I feel a lot of people who identify with me can relate to.

Also, I think having a musicality about me that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right.

We are in Europe, and we want a Europe that does few things and does them well, one that recognizes people's identities, languages, etc.

Mixed-bloods loosen the seams in the shrouds of identities.

I've always been really interested in how people's identities are shaped by where they come from and how they want to get away from where they come from.

I don't like identity. We accept identities in Israel. We make them holy. But what does identity really mean?

The European Union is robbing us of our national identities, our nation states.

Food is culture. Food is an identity, a footprint of who you are.