Quotes About Culture

There are cultural reasons, economic competitiveness reasons. There are a lot of reasons why people are in poverty. The difference today is that increasingly they are in perpetual poverty.

In the West, we've lost our intuitive understanding of how poverty shapes thinking.

The thing that's going to make artificial intelligence so powerful is its ability to learn, and the way AI learns is to look at human culture.

America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.

What is considered 'conservative' and what is considered 'liberal' changes in any given era.

I very much consider myself British.

I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.

I always consider myself a Hyderabadi; my roots are here.

No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.

I never considered myself as part of a biracial family - we're just a family - but my parents are white, and my brother is Asian.

The thing about Canada is, you're not really considered a Canadian actor unless you do something with the CBC.

When you're Jamaican, you don't consider yourself African American even though everyone else considers you that.

Segregation has never been a shadowy, impossible-to-pin-down conspiracy. It's been an American way of life.

In America, we are engaged in constant battle with food.

All across this world, especially within the African diaspora, we feel like there is a constant devaluing of our culture and our livelihood.

Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

I wish Americans understood that race is a social construct, even if we don't want it to be.

Firemen have a culture of death. There are rituals, carefully constructed for the living, to process the dead.

In twenty-first-century America, our stories have become one and the same: we work to consume, we live to consume, we are what we consume.

There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.

There's never going to be a new Beatles because we don't consume things in that way anymore.

The mainstream consumed our culture.

I'm a great consumer of kung-fu movies - mid-'70s to late-'80s.

We're going to be selling our product to the American consumer. We want to have Americans who understand American consumers.