Quotes About Culture

Oluale Kossola was not just a repository of black genius, tapped for a few stories, tales, and colorful phrases, and Zora Neale Hurston knew this. She did not perceive Barracoon as another cultural artifact illustrating the theoretical characteristics of Negro expression but as one, singular, portrait of black humanity.

My name, is not Cudjo Lewis. It Kossula.

brother pastorin' up round Ocala dat

Alice Walker published her important essay ("In Search of Zora Neale Hurston") in Ms. magazine in 1975

Ah was wid dem white chillun so much till Ah didn't know Ah wuzn't white till Ah was round six years old.

Jus' cause you done set round and growed ruffles round yo' hips nobody can't mention fat 'thout you makin' out they talkin' bout you.

The Panthays were a group of Chinese Muslims

Abba and me, we were the 70s.

I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.

I come from a very matriarchal family, which is the case for a lot of Aboriginal families.

An experience abroad really enriches you.

Working abroad made me better.

Moving abroad brings you on both as a player and a person.

When you're abroad, you always miss your country.

Part of my whole project from the beginning was to make an absent world present for my parents, which was India.

I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them.

It would be absurd to say I'm not British - you can hear it when I speak.

My parents were bookish, very musical, but otherwise uninvolved in the arts or the academic world.

I'm an American by accent, and I grew up in the States, living there between the age of three and 24.

I was 12 years old when I first moved to New York, and at that age, you're trying to find yourself. It was hard being so different from everyone I was around, and I felt that nobody could really understand me because everyone was American, and I was this little English girl with an accent.

I have a funny accent in every language.

I would pay good money for a British accent.

My mother has lived abroad and I've grown up hearing her talk, so probably that's where I get this accent from.

I still keep my accent.