Quotes About Culture

I like Kanye West... he makes good music.

There has been a terrible hemorrhage of educated women to the West where they can flourish. I understand, but it is terrible. We must stay home.

The West wanted to avoid an Islamic state in Europe.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

My immediate family are from the West Indies - from Trinidad and Grenada - and I have relatives all over the Caribbean.

Poland is different from the other so-called socialist countries. We have a different background. Poland belongs to the West, not the East. We belong to the Mediterranean, Latin culture, not to the Byzantine, which is very different and which you find in Bulgaria and even parts of Czechoslovakia and, of course, Romania.

I stream this radio station, Radio Nova, that's based in Paris. They curate a beautiful set that's really all over the place - they'll play blues or some West African music, then A Tribe Called Quest, then funk from Ethiopia, then James Brown, and then the Beatles. It's an amazing mix.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

Russia is a part of the West and at the same time is a part of the Asia-Pacific.

I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking or not saying how you really feel.

It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.

In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no one was immune to capricious tragedy.

When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.

As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.

West Bengal belongs to Bengalis. We should live here like a king and not as servants.

I met my wife in Bombay at an official function. And then we courted for three years. That's a great old term, 'courting.' And we had to do it quietly, of course, because you would know the difficulties one might have with Indian parents. She was advised by her father that people in the West don't take marriage seriously.

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

As a cultural product of both 'East' and 'West', I do not believe there is a fundamental basis for a clash of civilisations, or that the West is the cause of all problems.

I grew up in West Jakarta, in a middle-to-low-class neighbourhood.

The Frank Matcham theaters in the West End in particular are incredible pieces of architecture.

The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West.

They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.