Quotes About Culture

It's good to see young kids getting into the blues.

Well, I think they're all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it's the young man or girl who goes through a trial or ordeal and hits a very low ebb but manages to get guidance from a Merlin type figure.

By the time I was a young man, I lived with two deep struggles: I longed to become a cricketer, and I performed miserably in school. Cricket and tennis were all that I lived for. In India, this was a formula for failure.

I think I wanted to be a doctor. In Iran, the engineering and medical professions are worshipped. My father very much wanted me to be a doctor. I was certainly eager to please as a young man - as a kid, I should say.

In ancient African cultures, a young man was not considered a full member of the tribe, an elder, a man. He couldn't marry and he couldn't own land until he had killed a lion. It was symbolic.

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.

In high school, I began to dig my way into Ethiopian history, and began to understand myself as a young man formed by multiple narratives.

The world likes trap and EDM unless it's a fire melody.

The great trap for non-American actors trying to play Americans, I think, is to start thinking of American-ness as a characteristic. It isn't. It is no more a character trait than height. It is just a physical fact, and that's all there is to it.

My sister listened to reggae, and my homies listened to trap music.

When I think of trap, I think of something that is unrehearsed. It's something that's edgy, not too well put together.

We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.

I'm still going to sing these songs because trap is a type of music very popular in the streets, and people want to hear it.

Trap music, to me, is hustling music.

I found Jerusalem to be a tourist trap. I hope that I don't offend anyone by saying that.

I feel like it's our job, between me and Jeezy and Gucci - I feel that's who the streets look at as far as trap music. So if it's gonna be saved, we have to save it.

'Letter to the Trap' is a real approach on how I really feel. It's like when you're in that culture and you're living that life, there's always obstacles when trying to get out.

I love trap music and street music.

English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.

I love the Italian culture - it's a beautiful culture. I love the language, the Italian people, their music, their attitudes... I just love it! Sometimes I think I'm an Italian trapped in a Spanish woman's body.

The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.

Even though I have spent literally years of my life trying to learn another language, any other language - and even though I have in the past claimed in several key professional contexts that I speak other languages - I am in fact still trapped inside the bubble of English.

The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.