Quotes About Culture

Everybody says they want good films and when one turns up, they go watch item songs.

Item numbers have existed from time immemorial.

The Punjabi food has its own taste. It's not just about one food item but the Punjabi food is itself world-renowned.

I don't judge people who are in item numbers.

Items numbers have become a part of movies.

Coffee is a language in itself.

Russia has never been very good at explaining itself to foreigners.

The idea of creating a quote-unquote 'retro' world isn't all that appealing to me by itself.

I try and keep up with the top 10 on iTunes.

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

I didn't wear a leather jacket, man. I didn't grow up in the '50s.

When I was sitting at home watching 'Yo! MTV Raps' as a kid, seeing the bright jackets excited me.

I came around at a time when myself, Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna and George Michael, we were considered kind of dangerous.

There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.

We're the only ethnic group that says, 'Hey, if you go to jail, it gives you street cred.'

My entryway into hip-hop was - my biggest introduction was obviously like, you know, the Def Jam, Run D.M.C., Beastie Boys, like, that conglomerate.

Even if I wasn't in music, even if my father was a carpenter, some guy in Jamaica would go 'You're just like Bob. You're just like your father.' That happens in Jamaica all the time.

I have never been to Jamaica and in footballing terms, I feel English because this is where I grew up and played all of my football. That is not to say I don't have immense pride in my Jamaican heritage - I certainly do.

Even in Jamaica, your own country, coming into youth cricket you need to be from an upscale high school or have a light skin. As you get older you get used to the culture. My club, Lucas Cricket Club, was the only one to accept black people back in the day.

I can't really live outside Jamaica. I can be away, but only for a while.

Jamaica full of ghetto, but boy, I tell you: me never see it like that.

I was actually born in deep rural Jamaica and came to Kingston as a high school girl.

Jamaica has a lot of foods that give you energy and strength, as well as being very nice to eat.

Being in Jamaica, I feel comfortable there.