Quotes About Culture

What I love about 'Culpables' is that it's a completely clean song. We do not speak ill of women or men. The song is clean. It does not have bad words.

I think it should be illegal for people to throw away music.

My family was one of the few South Asian families in my community in Illinois. Growing up in the '80s, I remember going to the K-Mart with my mom, when she was wearing her sari, and she'd get made fun of. People would ask my mother, 'Were you born with that dot on your head?'

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.

One of the benefits of working outside the U.K. is that I don't have to keep fielding media/politicians' enquiries about 'Britishness' and its ills.

Healthy body image is not something that you're going to learn from fashion magazines.

It's not just Ethiopia, but Africa in general - most of the media concentrates on what's not going well. But there is so much beauty there. When you go, it changes everything. It changes you, your life, and the way you see things. The challenge is changing the image of Africa that's been anchored in people for years now.

Our society's dependence on imagery says a lot about our values.

We're living in this world where we have so much media all the time. We have access to imagery all the time.

All you see on television are debased images.

So many images are saying to girls, 'Show a lot of skin and look gorgeous and sexy.'

We're always bombarded with images from magazines of what looks cool and sexy.

I don't know what a world would be like if you do away with sexy images.

This is a culture filled with perfect images of women and perfect images of movie actresses, and most people can't live up to them.

People see images now more than they see movies.

Myth-making is absolutely necessary to create the simplified images that people live off.

Everyone has images in their mind of what to expect from different groups.

I read everything, but particularly, growing up in a household where my mom was black and my dad was white, I remember really loving 'Ebony' and 'Essence.' Those magazines were the only place where I could see images of women who looked like me or my mom.

There are certain images attached to an Indian woman - a mother, daughter, homemaker... there are certain parts of it that I really like, and I love having that identity also, but I feel women shouldn't be limited to that.

I wanted other people, not just Americans, to see - I wanted to take my images to a global stage. I wanted people to see what I was seeing, 'cause I thought it was really important to see.

I think there's tremendous power in the images we associate with Russian culture and history, these extremes of beauty and brutality that lend themselves to fantasy.

I can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns.