Quotes About Culture

I felt Helen Willis was in tune with the situation of a black woman married to a white man, and she had no problem being black.

When you live in Beijing for a while, you gain a finely tuned understanding of air.

Across all U.S. intelligence agencies, there is a lack of cultural respect and a poorly tuned attitude toward foreign peoples and cultures.

True, I drive an Italian sports car around Hollywood, but the radio is tuned to a country-and-Western station.

The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture.

I like hearing the sort of harmonies people get into in different parts of the world. I love music that has a sense of allure to it, and exotic tunes. That's what I'm drawn to.

We are trying our best to spread the culture of Punjabi music all over the world. With the traditional rigid Punjabi music, people always had a myth that the music is very conventional, but nowadays, we are really thrilled to see how people are loving the tunes and beats of Punjabi music.

There were some great tunes played between '67 and '73. The Beatles were everywhere in those days, the most famous people in the world. You couldn't avoid them if you wanted. Not that I did.

I love melodic tunes and I think Kannada listeners have an ear for romantic songs.

My dad was born in Haiti, and my mom was born in Tunisia. She is the daughter of a white French woman and a black, half-Guadeloupian, half-American man. My mom traveled the world a lot. She went through Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. She just got to experience a lot of different cultures, and that came through my childhood.

Tunisia is small - just ten million, no great natural resources.

My dad's Nigerian, and I remember going to Nigeria, and all of these kids and adults and everyone in-between knew who TuPac was. They had TuPac t-shirts, TuPac posters, TuPac cassettes... everyone knew TuPac, and sometimes that was the only English that they spoke, was TuPac lyrics.

Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.

You'll get a kid in Liberia wearing a Tupac T-shirt, and for us, that's zef. People try to say it's like trash, but it's not really trash. It's putting things together you think are cool.

Tupac is definitely a legend.

My dad did not play Biggie or Tupac, so I had never heard it.

Before I got signed to Bad Boy, I grew up listening to Snoop and Tupac and my hood was all Tupac driven.

I have a lot of friends who are in love the '90s. Girls, boys. '90s music? That's Tupac. That's Biggie. That's TLC. That's Aaliyah. I still listen to Aaliyah. I still listen to Tupac and Biggie. There's people who are really heavy on that culture.

I don't know rap. I can't tell you a Tupac song. But you put on some go-go, and I'll know it word-for-word. That's why I feel like I got my own sound - or a D.C. sound.

Growing up, you hear Tupac's music, it's kind of like... it goes without saying that everyone likes Tupac.

I listened to Tupac and a lot of Biggie Smalls.

When Tupac came out, my writing changed for sure. I learned from it. It was a cultural thing.

When I became older and started to become more in tune with my political leanings, there was a disconnect between the feminist in me and the hip hop side of me, and I don't know if, in some way, those influences are also present in Tupac's work.

I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.