Quotes About Culture

Both mythology and history interest me.

I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few.

Because, if I'm honest, people in the white world might be appalled, but in the black world, they're making myths out of me. And I know that ain't the life.

Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.

I don't really know football from the Seventies and Eighties. It's all myths and legends to me.

'Fake' used to be an insult, but now it's a badge of honour, with hair extensions, tans and nails all artificial, but looking fabulous.

You can't just come from Kansas, go into fashion and be all naive. The fashion world is very different to where I'm from.

You don't grow up naive in Africa.

At times, I might have been too young; I might have been too naive at times and didn't understand who I really was to a whole culture.

The name Zahra was to have been lman's own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.

Now, you may not have known this from my name, Lopez-Cantera, but I'm Jewish.

My given name was Zahra, which is the 'flower of the desert.' I don't look anything like the flower of the desert. My name was changed by my grandfather to Iman, which means 'have faith.' And it meant to have faith that a daughter would come.

I have some role models. In Brazil, they are mostly writers. A writer named Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto is my favorite. Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis is also a very important figure for me.

When my mother was born on 14 April, he named her after a Latin American holiday, the Day of Americas, that nobody knew about. My due date also happened to be 14 April.

My parents gave me a Mexican name. In our culture, we are named after the events of the day.

My father named me Kelli because 'Kelli O'Hara' just sounded so Irish.

I was named after a Muslim.

Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.

My intentions are I'm living my life and my life is created by my parents, my different experiences, my languages, my culture and, yeah, my kids do have very Spanish-influenced names.

I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the French are very good at knowing the names of everybody.

I love Korean food, and it's kind of like home to me. The area that I grew up in outside Chicago, Glenview, is heavily Korean. A lot of my friends growing up were Korean and when I would eat dinner at their houses, their parents wouldn't tell me the names of the dishes because I would butcher the language.

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.

Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names.

Biblical names are hot again.