Quotes About Culture

The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it.

Rio de Janeiro has captured my imagination.

I think objectifying women is not wrong if only her beauty is captured in an aesthetic manner.

Shakespeare's always on my dance card if it can be.

Athletics weren't really in the cards in my family - books, not body.

I'm always very careful to say I'm Irish-Ethiopian because I feel Ethiopian and I look Ethiopian and I am Ethiopian. But there are 81 languages in Ethiopia, and I don't know any of them.

'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong.

I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.

The Chinese, the African, and the European - they are all there. So the division of the Caribbean experience into being emphatically only African is absurd.

I want to give my daughter that Caribbean influence. But also, just being a black girl in this country, I want her to grow up with culture and confidence, and with love.

What I like the most about Indore is its people, they are so caring and loving. Also, the city is culturally and economically rich.

You carry your country with you, it's part of your baggage.

America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays.

Around the year 2000, businesses around the country went 'business casual.'

The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst.

I was playing catch with the European audience.

Rap's the only music that they categorize like that. That's one thing that I hate, like, down South rap, or up North rap. Country is just country rather than wherever it's from. R&B, you don't call it Atlanta R&B, you know what I mean. So that's already like a shot at our culture.

'Honour'-based violence is a form of domestic violence. Domestic violence is a broad category.

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.

I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.

My parents wanted to keep me away from girls, so they sent me to a Catholic boy's school, the Loyola Academy in Chicago.

In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.

My parents were Belfast Catholics.

A lot of people don't realize that hair is a big thing for a lot of people, not just African-American women. It's something to be aware of and to be cautious of.