Quotes About Culture

I don't want to endorse products that propagate fair skin at all.

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.

The girls show more skin these days, but I think, generally, they behave the same way as when I was growing up.

We hear a lot in this country about family, and 'American Family' just shows us a portrait we haven't seen as much of yet. 'American Family' lets us know that being American isn't about the color of your hair or eyes or skin: it's really a state of mind.

I'd like less Irish-looking skin.

I've never claimed myself to be a particularly Asian R&B singer. I'm R&B, pure and simple, regardless of my skin colour. Should that matter? I think not.

In my family, only my brother has a similar skin color. But in Senegal, the color is common.

I never really had to put much thought into my race, and neither did anybody else. I knew I was black. I knew there was a history that accompanied my skin color, and my parents taught me to be proud of it. End of story.

Funny, I think that the only reason I'm compared to Prince is because of my skin color.

Being bored by clothes shopping feels smart and intellectual: 'Ooh, get me, insufficiently entertained by racks of skinny jeans; my mind is on higher things.'

Let's face it, it's a skinny world out there.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary.

I am Ecuadorian but people felt so safe passing me off as a skinny, blue-eyed white girl.

People are branded as either 'fat' or 'skinny' from an early age. You sort of never shake it, even if you end up losing weight.

Take a random selection of photographs of America in 2012 and 2002 and 1992 and, except for the skinny jeans and the porkpie hats, you'll be hard-pressed to tell the years in which the pictures were taken.

I grew up as a Polynesian kid in the Polynesian community, and I was this skinny white kid.

I was into 'Skins,' 'Shameless' - I was really into 'Shameless' for a bit.

I'm Muslim but not really. My family did not care. And I always managed to skip religion classes when I was living in the Gulf, even when they were obligatory.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

I love hip-hop and you can't tell me I'm not a hip-hop artist.

I'm an island boy, so I love my reggae and soca music.

I'd love to do a musical. I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.