Quotes About Culture

Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone's life.

'Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.

To define the era we live in is very difficult. How do we define it? We define it by music.

The people inside the company are the people who define GE, not the people outside the company.

Black people have to define who we are, or others do it for us.

For me, a place is defined by the kind of people inhabiting it.

I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by that.

We can all be defined by food.

I am not defined as a black writer in the Caribbean, but as soon as I go to America or the U.K., my place becomes black theatre. It's a little ridiculous.

I'm interested in the lives of Americans for whom the ways this culture has tried to define itself - that is, self-esteem defined by material wealth - they have nothing to do with that.

In a world that is defined by what separates us, sharing a meal with someone from a different country, showing what we have in common with the people, it's very powerful and important.

A film is a film, and shouldn't be defined by language.

Alabama is defined by its people. It's that simple.

I don't think being white defines who I am.

The downside to defining everything Chinese as different than American is that all things Chinese then become exotic.

I always think about race as a part of one's identity, not the whole of one's identity. You don't want it to be the defining characteristic of a character. There has to be more.

What people are consuming is what things represent. It's people defining themselves through what they wear.

There's this responsibility you feel to present a certain thing that kind of respectability politics. I think that became the only accepted way of defining black culture. I started to become too aware of 'How does this look?' instead of 'Who are these characters?'

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

When I was young and used to look at Chinese architecture, there was no clear definition between what was landscaping and what was architecture.

I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.

Somebody's going to have to come up with a definition of what the alt-right is.

I'm not going to degrade women, and that's very anti-hip-hop.

For many there is a degree of constancy in our culture; London won't let you down.