Quotes About Culture

The two men who bring guns to the ghetto don't know what to do since when music hit you can't hit it back.

Weeper stare at me hard then laugh. Nothing like a Weeper laugh, it start like a wheeze then somewhere, and you never know where, it explode into the biggest thing in the room. Who teach this little black man that he can laugh so?

All the time she's silent. All the women were silent except the white one talking to Trent. If it wasn't for the red, green and gold and that the skirts are often denim, I'd think I was surrounded by Muslim women.

Sometimes I have to remind even him that three feet north of this vagina is a brain. Still, even an American man don't like when a woman's too smart, especially a Third World woman whom it is his duty to educate.

I love how Americans can just claim something to be whatever they feel it is despite clear evidence it is not. Like football game with nobody using any feet that takes forever.

Everybody lives in their own Jamaica and damn if that was ever going to be mine.

Go to Hanover and take a name like Everton or Courtney or Fitzharold, a name that sound like both mother and father raise me.

En eso soy como el Cantante porque a él también le encanta hablar, hasta cuando toma la guitarra y crea sus rimas con «ismo» y «cisma» lo que está haciendo es hablar. Y hasta cuando rima «ismo» con «cisma» está esperando que le contestes porque lo que aquí hacemos es conversar. El reggae no es más que un hombre que habla y conversa con otro hombre, conversando por ambos laos, como digo yo.

Racism here is sour and sticky, but it goes down so smooth that you're tempted to be racist with a Jamaican just to see if they would even get it.

It does not surprise me to hear that there is considerably less violence in cultures where people think in terms of human needs than in cultures where people label one another as "good" or "bad" and believe that the "bad" ones deserve to be punished.

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian, but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity, and this is one of our marvellous resources.

The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

The car has become... an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete.

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.