Quotes About Culture

I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.

My introduction to the United States was plantations in Louisiana. It was delightful.

Hebrew School was my first introduction to real feminism. I remember that much more than I remember any kind of actual religious teaching.

I had a very late introduction to films. We didn't watch a lot of films while growing up in Kolkata.

Artists have long urged cultural introspection by creating work that forces awareness of our current political and economic landscape.

In some ways England is more liberal than France, but I also find it more intrusive. But when you go abroad you have to accept the ways of where you live. I have to respect that.

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.

I know that we're being inexorably taken over by the Americans. Without a doubt. I don't mean invaded or anything like that, just taken over. By degrees.

We all know that abuse, harassment, and worse have long invaded the entertainment ecosystem. That story goes back to the beginning of Hollywood... probably farther.

The whole British invasion sort of changed my life. It made me want to move to New York.

Cultural appropriation is a big problem, but the thing is, I didn't invent my life. I really lived in Africa.

We didn't invent anything new. Hospitality has been around forever.

I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.

Gender and sex are about rules which we have invented, but we are animals; we belong to nature.

One thing I am sure about Manchester is that people are proud of their history. They are proud of their football, music, the industrial revolution, and all the amazing things that were invented here.

Historically, the French have had a romantic attachment to their bikes. Though the first functioning two-wheeler is thought to have been invented by a German in 1817, it was the French who popularized and marketed the device in the 1860s, giving it the name 'bicycle.'

I'm certainly not inventing anything new with drag.

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

Everything affects hip-hop. The question is, how does it affect the money that corporations are going to invest to put out different kinds of hip-hop?

The more you know about your country, your people, you invest better in your craft.

In 1998 I invested in the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at Strathclyde Uni and subsequently put more capital into enterprise education to try and help change the culture.

I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.