Quotes About Culture

My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.

We don't like to say that [my wife was Jewish] because her mother was Jewish, which means she was Jewish. So don't imply that my wife was a shikse.

My father has passed away. He was African-American. My mother is white. So I was adopted by a couple that was of a similar dynamic as my biological parents.

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

I think my mother would be very happy if I found a nice Welsh girl.

My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.

My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.

The way you would know if someone is famous in the art world is that you would ask your mother. My mother knows who Picasso was. She knows who Warhol was.

It's okay to be proud of your good English. But don't be proud of being poor at your Mother tongue. Only the scum of the earth do that.

I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.

We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity. It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.

My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.

My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

[Human beings] will begin to recover the moment we take art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money.

I am an Indian. In fact, I feel like a foreigner when I go abroad.

A country without a memory is a country of madmen.

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.

In our culture, we grow up thinking that failure is a terrible thing, that it's a setback, or worse, the end. Often it turns out to be the beginning of something better.

In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do.

Video games are a huge, incredibly popular, world-transforming medium.