Quotes About Culture

I consider myself Russian-American because I'm American by ethnicity and by passport, but I spent all my forming years over in the former Soviet Union in a Russian school. I never went to an American school. There was a lot of culture shock when I moved back to the States when I was 17.

I think that lunch is one of the most enjoyable and important things in the day. But you need to create the space and the time to do just that. And in Italy, we do that.

The whole ability to look at the complexity of race and any sort of associated -ism and still find humor, that's a very interesting space.

Especially for young POC, when we enter majority-white spaces, we feel the need to assimilate, to blend in, to prove ourselves. I don't think we discuss it enough.

I grew up in wide-open spaces, but they didn't have the romantic history of the West.

When I started writing poetry, it was always in very hip-hop influenced spaces: Someone would teach a Nas song side-by-side with a Gwendolyn Brooks poem, and we'd talk about the connections between those things.

There's a lot of spaces that care about what kids are buying. There are a lot of spaces that care about what kids are watching. But there aren't a lot of spaces that care about what kids are saying.

To see a trans body in this ideal space - on a cover, in an ad - these are spaces that have immense cultural power to dictate what is beautiful, what is glamorous, what is aspirational, what is sexy, what is clean. That can be very powerful and helpful in the de-stigmatization of trans bodies.

I navigate different cultures daily, and I understand how people can make false assumptions because of their lack of interaction with the cultures I find myself in. But if they don't frequent these spaces much, how can they rush to judgment?

Sports culture is not PC or far left. There are no safe spaces in the field of competition.

Give me rice, dal and some aachar any day, or a Spaghetti Bolognese.

If you're going to do a spaghetti legs routine where else but in Rome to do it. The home of spaghetti!

My Italian granny and my mother made great spaghetti, but it wasn't a kind of southern Italian, Godfather-esque kind of thing - it was a wonderful, big mixing pot of all kinds of people - when you came home from school and your mum wasn't in, there were lots of people you could go to.

My mother and sisters cooked Italian food, and I never heard of half of the dishes you see in these Italian restaurants. I just go in and order spaghetti.

Spain is a fascinating mix of people, languages, culture and food, but if there is one thing all Spaniards share, it's a love of food and drink.

I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan.

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

I haven't changed. My family and I live as we did in South Spain. I've had loud music, chickens, birds, and a bull in my backyard.

In Spain, you can go into any tapas bar, and you'll see anchovies all over the menu.

I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey.

I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.

I've lived for two years in Croatia, one year in Japan, Brazil, Spain, and all those different countries.

We come from Spain, from Barcelona. We could perform in many places around the world, and it's been amazing to bring our music to so many people in so many different places. That's been amazing.

Juventus in Italy are like Real Madrid in Spain, when you enter the team it feels different.