Quotes About Culture

On 'Black Hawk Down,' I was employing 1,000 Muslims. 'Kingdom of Heaven,' same deal except bigger, probably 1,500 Muslims.

I'm always criticised by other Somalis and Muslims for what I'm doing as a model and married to a white man and all that.

When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.

I would rather live as a Muslim in the West than in most of the Muslim countries, because I think the way Muslims are allowed to live in the West is closer to the Muslim way.

Our culture is a very diverse one, and I think now it is incredibly dangerous and very wrong to persecute Muslims and say there is something wrong with being a Muslim.

There's a general ignorance about how Muslims live and what Muslims believe.

Growing up, I didn't see that many Muslims on TV and we don't see many now. But essentially I am a mother and that's the job I know best.

I grew up in Zurich until I was 12, and I've always come to Vorderer Sternen for a sausage, a hunk of bread, and some mustard.

My family members are vegetarians, but I like mutton and chicken seekh kebabs.

Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.

I can be a mix of both. I don't have to be an Indian or an American. They're not mutually exclusive. It's something growing up I didn't know.

Well, it's hard for me to call anybody my 'friend' because when I say 'friend,' like, I'm from the South and friends have grown up with you, went to school with you, stuff like that.

My generation is under-entertained.

Growing up, 'Mean' Gene was the voice of my generation.

If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.

My generation has a hard time being genuine and enthusiastic. There's a lot of irony in our culture.

I think my generation is defining themselves as Canadian artists.

Looking at younger artists, like Varda Caivano and Kerstin Bratsch, I see that their work has something in common that is new to my generation. There's an effort to value the evidence of the hand and the handmade thing while also acknowledging the way in which the making of things with hands has such a complex, alienated place in our culture.

My generation of black British people often feels part American because of what we learned from TV.

The Gen X generation never got past 'Reality Bites,' apparently, and my generation, the Gen Yers... Facebook? Maybe a conservative revolution?

Japanese feel an intimacy with the dead, at least for people up to my generation.

The generation who will watch 'Not Safe For Work', my generation, don't care who plays a part.

My generation, we're so diverse in so many ways.

I've always said that musicians are the comics of my generations and comedians are the politicians of my generation.