Quotes About Culture

K.C. and the Bay Area are opposites.

London and L.A. are two opposites - I like the difference.

When I was growing up I don't think Muslims and Jews were considered to be opposites.

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'

People say, 'You should let your hair out; you shouldn't be oppressed - you're not in Malaysia anymore. You should show your curves and be proud of it.' But I am proud - it's my choice to cover up my body. I'm not oppressed - I'm free.

Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.

If you think about it, hip-hop came out of nothing. It was a response to oppression.

We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.

To demand that people find their assigned narrow corridors of culture or ethnicity or gender, expecting people to forevermore stay in that lane, is to limit our human potential. It's oppressive.

I thank my mum, dad, and home for keeping me in touch with my own country and my own land. I can be in the studio with Snoop Dogg or singing for Oprah, but I'm still me.

My mother has always been open about all kinds of music and entertainment. She wanted us to see that it was not just country music and the Grand Ole Opry.

We really had boundless optimism about the place of music in the culture - and in the world.

Americans like optimists and shun 'doomsayers.'

Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can't be too optimistic.

People still try to sell books that way - as 'books can take you to foreign lands.' We've given children this idea that reading and books are a nice option, if you want that kind of thing. I hope we can get over that idea.

My parents are from Ghana. Until I was 17, I thought you had to go to college. I had no idea. I didn't know it was not an option.

A lot of people like mainstream country because they're not given another option of country music to like that's modern.

Everywhere you go somebody is on a diet. Everywhere you go in L.A. there is a no-carb option.

If you consider a small city like Indore, break-ups are not so common there. I remember my parents, like any normal couple, had their share of fights, but getting separated was never an option.

Filipino food is not common when compared to your local Chinese food options.

I have been given something really, really special and really unique, and it is not just in and of itself having learned from my father, who is the greatest exponent of this musical style. But it is an oral tradition that is only generally passed on in that manner, and so without the people who continue to... learn it and perform it, it dies.

I find myself listening to Blood Orange and Janelle Monae and artists like that.

I know all about Orange County.

I've always loved mixing Middle Eastern instruments into a classical orchestra.