Quotes About Culture

I grew up on listening to, like, Mantronix and BDP and EPMD and Kool G Rap and Ultramag and Public Enemy and Fat Boys and Run DMC and a lot of those early records, those Rubin-era records. Those were always snare- and stab-heavy records.

But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was making my living at white clubs and having my fun at the other places.

I was a good Indian girl, but naughty in that I would often sneak out of the back door and into the garden and go off with my friends when I should have been at home cooking or cleaning.

Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.

What we thought brings us a disadvantage, brings us an advantage against the American black rappers, because they look all the same, with their training outfits and sneakers, you know? But we didn't know this, it wasn't calculated.

There was a time when only athletes had sneakers. Entertainers having sneakers, on any level, is a blessing.

I don't think of myself as just a rapper. But overspending on sneakers? That's a real rapper thing to do.

I went to high schools in four different countries. The gift is that you can constantly reinvent yourself. I still feel that freedom. One day, I'll wear a dress I got in India; the next, Converse sneakers and jeans.

Aw man, growing up I just loved sneakers. In my neighborhood, having the freshest shoes was always a key. A major key.

As a kid, I always loved sneakers and style.

From the beginning of time, all I've ever done is hoop, and this culture of sneakers has always been a part of it.

When I first got into string-band music I felt like such an interloper. It was like I was sneaking into this music that wasn't my own... I constantly felt the awkwardness of being the raisin in the oatmeal.

Conservatism is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of cultural grievance - the conviction, uniting conservatives high and low, theocratic and plutocratic, neocon and paleocon, that someone, somewhere is looking down their noses at them with a condescending sneer.

It's not to say that, like, my sensibility is being sort of policed in any way. It's just I am trained at SNL' to think about the general audience. That's a unique aspect of SNL' - that everyone has an opinion on it from every generation.

Anybody who loves jazz has a little bit of snob in them.

To me, being a classical snob in the highest possible way and being an indie snob is just as bad!

I really miss Melbourne food; Melbourne is very snobbish about their caffe culture, and I feel like I've become a snob, too.

Close friends consider me a literary snob.

I'm the farthest thing from a foodie or a food snob. Those people terrify me.

I'm not a snob. I like ghetto rap and punk rock and all that stuff.

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

At least when it comes to food, there's no snobbery in Singapore.

There's a real kind of snobbery in the U.K. about horror films.