Quotes About Culture

'Lagoon' is an ambitious novel.

I'm very American.

I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.

I love American culture.

I was raised in France, and the American culture was present everywhere. On TV, on the radio.

I'm just feeling that... would I be more nervous having a boy? 100 percent. Because American culture and sports is massive.

My dad told me that he came to the U.S. because of watching Hollywood movies. So the American Dream for him was based on what you see in films.

I grew up watching films of predominantly white families speaking in English, and that this represented the American experience.

I like American history.

I learned a lot about American history though jazz, and that's why I loved American history when I was in high school. I could hear different stories - the story that they would tell in school, and then the story that I would hear in the music.

My father, to me, is an important piece in American history.

The performance of black American identity feels very different from actually living in a black body. There's a dissonance between inside and outside.

American men are like women.

American music culture is black culture.

I don't think there is much American music.

It's amazing how English music manages to travel to America and obviously, American music in the U.K. is massive.

For all the anti-Americanism around the world, people have this love of Americana.

My family, I can say, is pretty Americanized. My son has lived pretty much all his life in Chicago, my daughter was born in Chicago, we all like Chicago.

Americans, among the marryingest people in the world, are also the divorcingest.

The books that I'm writing, you can write them only when you're amongst your people. You're not going to find it on the Internet. You're not going to hear it there.

I lived in Amsterdam for five years doing comedy out there.

At home, I'm just Amy, but in India, I get mobbed.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

My dad is amazing. He has, like, ancient Chinese skills.