Quotes About Culture

Twerking is just limited to a certain, specific dance where it's hand on the knees and you're busting open. With bounce music, we do a whole lot more and everyone is so unique in the way that they move and their personality.

We are all a little bit hippy, a little bohemian. We take that from the culture we knew, from the '70s and the '80s.

I never fit in. Everyone knew my dad was Indian. I was half-Indian.

Before, back in the day when I was young, when you had some problems, you dealt with it with your hands. No one had a knife.

I sure would like to hear from those British and Gurkha knife artists I took into Burma.

There weren't any white people in this country who didn't know who Gladys Knight was. Or the Pips were, as far as that's concerned.

I think every culture - you can call it an American Ronin, a medieval knight errant, you could talk about 'Shane.' There is an archetype that I think is actually common to a lot of cultures, and even the Clint Eastwood stuff was probably as influenced by the Japanese stuff, and yet done by an Italian.

All Newfoundlander men can knit.

Whether it is kids carrying knives because they are in gangs or kids carrying knives because they are afraid of gangs, it is the gang culture that underpins the problem.

I think we have a culture that creates heroes and then needs to knock them down, and then you have to see what the third act brings.

When I was eight my mum said, 'You must integrate otherwise you won't fit it in. You must talk like de Dudley people dem.' Suddenly this thing of having a Jamaican attitude got knocked out of us.

Whatever their reasons, Hollywood, or the entertainment industry, is saying something about Indians. I don't see the rest of the media knocking down any doors to do that.

It's not lost on me to have the ability to be wearing custom Dior or Gucci, with my box braids or my bantu knots. It's another opportunity to show that Black girls belong in these places and that what I naturally bring as a Black girl belongs as well.

The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.

It is good to be well connected with English language, literature and history, but the knowledge of our culture and roots is equally important.

I come from U.P., so I can say that I have some knowledge about food and flavors.

We Latins are known for jabbering on.

Here in America, people come out to see what they've known you to do. In England, it's like everyone comes out to tell you exactly how well they think you're doing.

In Bengal, Hindus are known to crack jokes at the expense of their gods and goddesses and that's what I did.

In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore.

My father belongs to Muzaffarnagar. Though I was born and brought up in Delhi, we, as a family, are known as U.P. wallahas.

Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.

In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.

I listen to Migos. I listen to Drake a lot. Also 21 Savage, Kodak Black, XXXTentacion.