Quotes About Culture

I actually went to study with the Ramapoughs in New York. I wanted to be able to see the mountains and the forest, be around the people.

I am proud to be a daughter of the mountains.

I mourn the fact that my beautiful country has deteriorated in every way.

Many Americans don't mourn in public anymore - we don't wear black, we don't beat our chests and wail.

In Asia, red is the colour of joy; red is the colour of festivities and of celebration. In Chinese culture, blue is the colour of mourning.

Kids, adults, men, women, everybody has a relationship with Mickey Mouse.

I know it's a craze in Bollywood to have six-pack abs, but here, it's not the abs or the biceps that make us feel or look macho. Down south, the moustache still works for us!

You think you're in another civilization, another time, and then you see antennas coming out of these hovels, and your mouth falls open when you see the descendants of the Incas shouting 'Columbo! Columbo!'

I think, culturally, stories are important, whether it be cinema, whether it be by word of mouth - which I don't even know if we do anymore, as it all seems to be social media.

I can't say enough about Ireland. I can't. I'd move there.

If you move to Canada, after a few years you call yourself Canadian. In Germany, it's difficult to belong.

There are a lot of BeBe Zahara Benets in Africa. It's important that our continent can move forward, and respect diversity.

I want to clear this once and for all. I was born in Hong Kong. I grew up in Japan and China. London is not home for me. I was there only for three years before I moved to India, but that's probably why I am connected with it. London is definitely not the place I consider my home. It's India that I consider home.

When I first moved from Shanghai when I was five, I just thought of myself as Chinese.

I got family in the U.K. on my dad's side of the family. My grandfather's brother moved to the U.K. from Jamaica. It's a pretty big family I'll have there.

My parents moved to San Francisco from India when I was a year old.

Both my parents moved here from Argentina before I was born, so they were in a foreign country.

I was 15 when my family moved to Jidda from Britain in 1982. Living in Saudi Arabia was such a shock to my system that I like to say I was traumatized into feminism.

The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.

We moved, and there was a golden era in the '40s when we were so conscious of who we were as Australians.

For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.

Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven.

Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important.

The '60s are my favorite decade - with the Cold War, the women's movement. And then there's the music, the fashion, the clothes, the hair.