Quotes About Culture

De La Hoya doesn't know about salsa. He should keep on singing mariachis and leave the salsa to me. I'm good at salsa.

I am first of all from La Castellane and Marseille.

La Paz, Bolivia, is the most extraordinary city.

Now I love LA, but there are a lot of weird aspects to Hollywood.

Def Jam is an iconic label.

I come from a Muslim family. The label 'Muslim' is one aspect of me, but it's not the only part of me.

'Nice' is not a common label for comedians, but it is for Canadians. I like it.

Jive is a good label, but they're R&B'ed out.

I think it's harder for R&B to break in England because the radio and labels don't really know what to do with R&B music.

People I grew up with, my family, work in the oil fields. Everyone works a labor job - construction, concrete. All we know is work. It's a physical culture.

America's economy cannot be disentangled from the free labor that built it, just as America's culture cannot be unbound from the black artists who cultivated it.

The taste of the times is, unhappily, to give to children something of book-learning, with a view of placing them to live, in some way or other, upon the labour of other people.

In Bosnia, there are no 35mm cameras. There are no film labs.

When I left the U.S. for the first time, I spent my first year abroad in Japan. That culture shock and abundance of new stimuli combined with a lack of guidance forced me to develop my own approaches to learning and juggling.

People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share.

There's a lack of knowledge about Iran and the Iranian people.

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.

Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.

When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.

What did it mean to be a Jewish woman, and how did that differ from being a white or mainstream one? Why were middle-class Jews Democrats, and some of our equally middle-class Protestant neighbors Republican?

Our Jewishness was racially a middle place to experience womanhood. In relation to mainstream white folks, the women of my family felt different. However, in relation to African Americans, we experienced ourselves as mainstream and white.

So,high heels weren't a modern invention. I couldn't believe women had been putting up with these torture devices for centuries.

Poireaux vinaigrette aux grains de caviar." I did a quick translation. "Leeks and fish eggs in vinegar?" He grinned. "It sounds better in French." Yeah, but did it taste better?