Quotes About Culture

In the sense that I also try to reflect the fullness of the black experience, I'm very much a jazz poet.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

In my experience I haven't met too many uptight black people. I'm sure they're out there. Like I'm some big authority and I've lived in the inner city and ghetto.

We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.

Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis.

The African-America n experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.

A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is rare, and the picture has become ubiquitous.

Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world view as well as the psychological blinders that narrow our view of our personal experience.

Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting you in the shoes with an experience different than your own.

I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the more sort of synthetic lives that we've been living.

Going to another country you're not in your house, you're with people you've never met before, and I think it's definitely a good growing experience.

Sociologists say that going to the movies is a bonding experience. It probably has to do with the way you feet stick to the floor.

The majority of people mistakenly feel like they don't need a live musical experience.

I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue.

I think if you ask what people really mean by happiness today, it is the experience of unlimited consumption - the kind of thing Mr. Huxley described in "Brave New World."

Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any.

[The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss.

My identity is deeply intertwined with being a refugee because that's the first experience that I remember.

For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.

I didn't invent anything; it's all there in the culture; it's not a big mystery. I just combine my personal experience with classic cartoon stereotypes.

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

For me, rather than the language, the Hollywood system of making movies was a tremendous learning experience.