Quotes About Culture

In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.

One person's barbarity is another person's civilisation.

Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.

If you ask me what is civilisation, it's little more than an act of faith.

I must say I have a personal love affair with India, with its civilisation, its culture.

Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist church.

From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

It's very difficult to marry into another civilization.

Africa has a time-honored and brilliant civilization.

Paper is at the center of so many of the elements of the development of civilization.

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

Who does get to claim Americanness? You know, my brother was born in this country. And is he seen as American? So, I mean, it brings up a lot of interesting questions.

For me, hip-hop has always been black superhero music.

I confess I didn't read the 'Green Arrow' comics before coming to play Shado. The comic books are not as easily accessible in Hong Kong as they are in the States. I do enjoy superhero fiction, though.

How many superhero movies can we have? It seems like there are 19 a week. They're making money, though, and people are going to see them. So, I get it. I understand completely.

At age 10, or even 15, it would have meant the world to me to see a Pakistani girl portrayed positively, let alone as a comic book superhero.

When I asked myself what I'd want to see in a comic about a Pakistani superhero, the first word that came to mind was 'relatable.'

I think - since I was about 7 years old - that was when I was first introduced to the comics called 'Amar Chitra Katha' that are published in India. They're not about a superhero, but they encompass all the stories of India, the folklore, the mythology, everything. But most of these stories are about Indian historical figures.

I'm very into superhero culture and stuff like that, so I always think on very epic terms.

Now that we're poisoned with the culture of superheroes, I think it's important to laugh about it.

I have never met a superhero, but why are we so obsessed with superheroes?

We don't have a superhero culture. Comic books and superheroes are part of American culture. We have 'Amar Chitrakatha,' etc.

My superheroes are Meth, Keith Murray, Busta Rhymes, ODB, Xzibit. The superheroes before us were EPMD, Slick Rick, Rakim.