Quotes About Culture

There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?

I ought to at least be able to read literature in French. I went to an enlightened grade school that started us on French in fifth grade, which meant that by the time I graduated high school I had been at it for eight years.

I would like to bring people who have never been to a museum into a museum. And I would like to bring museum goers into libraries. I think there ought to be this cross-fertilization.

In the research I did for 'Apollo,' there was never a moment's hesitation by anyone that we would do anything other than save these guys, until every resource, every ounce of energy was spent. And I'm very proud of that aspect of our culture.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

Hip-hop is a beautiful thing. I think that the music genre itself has created more millionaires than any other music genre before it, especially in our community.

I'm proud to be a member of the creative class, particularly here in Atlanta where the entertainment and creative industries form such an integral part of our economy, our culture, and our community.

I think Kanye West is - people don't give him the credit he deserves for what he has brought to our generation.

Falling in love in our generation just isn't as popular as it used to be.

Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.

I truly believe Lorde is the voice of our generation.

I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.

We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.

Being political is an integral part of being Iranian. Our lives are defined by politics.

I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated, that we are indeed messy, that we do our best with what we've been given. We come into the world exactly like you. It's just that there are circumstances in the culture that are dictated and put on our lives that we have to fight against.

My parents made choices that would put me in environments where I would feel comfortable. And I'm really appreciative of that. They made sure we had some Latinos in our lives, even though there were none near the area I grew up in.

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still.

We are Korean, so obviously they call our music K-pop. But we never thought of our music as K-pop. Our music is just our music.

Our music has gotten polluted today. We are straying far from our culture. Other people are trying to grab our culture, but we are very far from our culture.

Bollywood music is so international now, and our music has become global.