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Quotes About Culture

North Indians tend to talk a little louder than others.
~ Mahima Chaudhry
When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.
~ Toyin Odutola
Fashion is fragile and fleeting. But it is also an indicator for the cultural and social appetites for a nation.
~ Kehinde Wiley
I was one of those kids who had never seen an indie film before I got to college. If it wasn't a big, huge tentpole movie, or if it wasn't on the radio, I hadn't experienced it.
~ John Krasinski
I kind of grew up in the indie world, and now that sort of writing and material is on television.
~ Parker Posey
I've always been in this weird indie world, and for a long time, I felt that it was not okay to be girly in that world.
~ Natalie Prass
Like all artists, I'm a complete cinephile; I see everything. I see past movies, present movies, indie movies, experimental movies.
~ Laurie Simmons
The older I get, the more aware I am of the banality and indifference of a place like Trinidad to any development of the arts.
~ Derek Walcott
Academic culture is not merely indifferent to teaching, it is actively hostile to it.
~ Charlie Sykes
Hip-hop was indifferent to Broadway. We didn't need Broadway, but I think Broadway needed hip-hop.
~ Daveed Diggs
I've always been an ambassador for Australians, non-Indigenous Australians and Indigenous Australians... I let people know about who I am and that I'm not just a basketballer, I'm a person who comes from a very rich heritage.
~ Patty Mills
The way that I represent Australia and indigenous Australia affects other people as well from other cultures.
~ Patty Mills
There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is.
~ Edward James Olmos
It is not possible to conceive a democratic Guatemala, free and independent, without the indigenous identity shaping its character into all aspects of national existence.
~ Rigoberta Menchu
Obviously, my Indigenous culture is very special to me.
~ Jessica Mauboy
In many respects, I think 'Bless Me, Ultima' is a novel about the indigenous.
~ Rudolfo Anaya
I'm connected with my indigenous roots.
~ Taboo
The AFL and NRL have done an awesome job every season in acknowledging Australia's culture and Indigenous culture.
~ Patty Mills
Being Indigenous, I feel very proud being an Australian and there are so many stories I want to tell.
~ Madeleine Madden
This is an Australia I'm willing to celebrate; an Australia that listens, learns and empathises with our Indigenous people.
~ Madeleine Madden
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
~ Sigmund Freud
Individualism is a formidable lie.
~ Rene Girard
At the basic consumer level, the profusion of fonts appeals to a culture that celebrates expressive individualism.
~ Virginia Postrel
I love Brits! They are so full of energy and individuality. I am a fan!
~ Stacey Bendet