Quotes About Culture

'Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

I started out just as Elvis was going into the army, Jerry Lee Lewis married his 14-year-old cousin, and Little Richard became a priest.

My father was a priest, so it was natural for us to read the 'Ramayana' and inculcate its values in our life.

So the Negro race has continued, and today is the day of the Negro as far as the world is concerned. They have influenced the generations of time; they have mixed their blood with many peoples, until there are many peoples not able to hold the priesthood.

Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.

We've been playing games since humanity had civilization - there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games. It's so deep-seated that it can bypass latter-day cultural norms and biases.

Primal Scream's 'Screamadelica' was one of the pivotal records.

Racism is not primal or instinctive.

There's a very primal, emotional response I feel when I hear flamenco.

My book collection is primarily in America, since that's where I've lived most of my life.

The United States has been from the beginning greatly influenced and primarily influenced by the Judeo-Christian system of values.

Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to figure out who I was in a primarily white school.

'Hotel Rwanda' is an American product, not a Rwandan one, made primarily for American audiences.

We've all been influenced by American naturalism, and to ignore that entirely would be impossible for me as someone who works primarily in film.

It's a complicated issue, but I define myself as an American, primarily.

My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.

I am primarily, absolutely a Caribbean writer.

I'm from Asia. You can hear it in my voice, and you can see it in my face, and that's primarily my perspective.

Korean food is primarily based on herbs and shoots and sprouts. There's no pasture land in Korea; we eat like Hobbits.

I'm primarily interested in examining human issues.

My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life.

I believe the director's primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created.

Growing up in a Singaporean Chinese family, for me food is almost the primary means of communication between family members, both immediate and extended... hey, it beats discussing which cousin did better at end of semester exams, or who's getting married next, right?

My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.