Quotes About Culture

But reconciliation, self-awareness, and finally the humility that makes peace possible come only when culture no longer serves a cause or a myth but the most precious and elusive of all human narratives—truth.

The demagogue, who is always an idiote, is not a freak or social mutation. The demagogue expresses the society's zeitgeist.

If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song.

The best kind of art or writing holds up a mirror to society.

Nothing I do is didactic. I just want to hold up a mirror and say, 'This is who we are.'

For me, hip-hop was a mirror when young-adult books were not. I could see myself in a Nas song more than I could see myself in a book.

I believe films are the mirror of society we live in.

Period pieces hold up a mirror to the world that we live in.

At the end of the day, films mirror our society. It will take time for everybody to open up to this and accept it. They are not instantly going to sit up and change the way they think about it.

A film is a mirror image of our society. If there's something wrong with the way we make films or the way women are stereotyped, then it means that it's happening in real life.

The whole ecosystem of celebrity has broken down for writers. If you go back to the '50s, '60s, and '70s, writers were on TV a lot, and they were allowed to misbehave a lot.

The biggest misconception in the hip-hop industry is that people are only focused on the money. We should just be happy for everybody that is working in the hip-hop culture.

There's a misconception in my opinion... and it's that we Latinos have to go do an American album, an English album, an Anglo production, to cross over.

There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.

There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.'

From what it seems like in my follower base, they have these bad misconceptions about China, and some of them are true and some are false.

Even though there are a lot of misconceptions about me not being an Indian, I am born and brought up in Bandra.

A miserable politics awaits us when the irreligious rot flows downstream.

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

I think quite a misguided literary culture has grown up in the 20th century that says a book has to have a seriousness of purpose and a seriousness of language.

I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.

I miss Broadway, what little there is on Broadway now.

I miss Colombia. It's a great place.

Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place.