Quotes About Culture

I want to tell Jamaica, Happy 50th Anniversary.

I have always loved doing accents. I have lived with my parents in a number of countries, including Italy and Jamaica.

I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big.

I wanted a picture of Jamaica that isn't in books, and certainly not in novels.

Having grown up in different countries - Jamaica, Italy, U.K. - I catch the accents quite easily. In the U.S., they don't know where I am from!

I want to go to Jamaica, actually. My whole family's from there, so I'd like to go there.

I left Jamaica to come to England, but one place became another place. I lived in Tulse Hill, in Brixton and Coldharbour Lane.

When you see a Jamaica video, it's always the hood. Everybody in the video's got guns, and the world looks at it like that's what Jamaica's about. And it affects the economics of the music.

I live in Kingston. When I tell people I live in Kingston, they start fearing for my life. People ask me if I have Internet in Jamaica. Like, seriously?

My father's from Jamaica.

Bob's whole life is about Africa. It is not about Jamaica.

If you want to go way way back, then I'm Scottish. My great great grandfather was Scottish, James Gordon Harriott, and a white Scotsman too.

I am a big devourer of James Baldwin.

You need a good James Clavell novel, I think, to make a good miniseries.

I've grown up in the Treme, and I played in a bunch of brass bands. My brother, James Andrews, had a brass band.

My mom was a big fan of Al Green... James Brown we weren't allowed to listen to, so of course I knew James Brown.

Black culture - we dance and sing. We're entertainers. James Brown said it best: the things we are make people want to be like us.

I've been sampled at least 71 times. Me, James Brown and George Clinton, we're the ones who've been sampled the most.

I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.

As Annie Proulx is to Wyoming, so is Jane Candia Coleman to Arizona.

Part of me just wants 'Jane' magazine back, and 'Sassy,' too.

There is a lot to do in Cleveland. It's just those December, January, February months that are tough. But there is a lot to do there.

In Japan, sometimes it's hard to know what you are looking at.

I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan.