Quotes About Culture

I've never graced the cover of a fashion magazine.

A lot of people will look at you and will fail to see your beauty because you're covered up and they're not used to it. So growing up, I just had to work on my people skills and give people a chance to really know me besides the clothing.

'Essence' is political. I grew up on the magazine, looking at the covers. Seeing ourselves on the cover is political.

I'm a cowboy and an Indian.

There's no cowboys in England.

Cooking is not a craft to get into for money. The money may come, or it may not. But you must get into it for the craft and the culture.

Australians aren't really that crazy; in L.A. you get a little crazier. From my experience at least, Aussies don't really care that much about celebrities or things like that.

I am a Londoner and I love my home. There are many things about this country which drive me crazy, but when I am in America, I feel wrong there.

I don't think I will ever understand Bollywood. And I'm happy about that because it is a big, crazy, world. It's too complicated and chaotic to understand.

I love the experience the theater creates for a community of people.

Blackness, any sort of difference, is not a burden. Relegating blackness or other sorts of difference to serious books that explicitly engage with issues creates a context in which it can seem like one.

I think it's important for us not just to edit the culture that capitalism creates but to create the material basis for a culture that we want.

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.

London is full of creative people - you can never say that it's not.

New York is full of creative people, not only in fashion.

If you're lucky enough to work with great actors and creative people, they're always just going to be who they are, so I don't think there's a difference between the Brits and the Americans.

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

I think for the culture I gotta collaborate with Pharrell. He's from my area, that'd be amazing - what he would pull out of creatively.

I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.

Not only did I always know I was black, I always knew we were and are beautiful, culturally rich, and creators of everything from the sciences to the arts.

The list of Scarborough's rock credentials could go on forever.

You have to understand, that's all I've ever wanted: for London to have a credible musical voice. I will honestly, honestly die happy knowing that I saw it happen.

I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here.

My grandmother is from Martinique, so sometimes I'm ashamed that I don't speak Creole.