Quotes About Culture

Diversity, it is good. This country has been built by diversity. But diversity in sharing of values? For me, it's not good.

The question is not how do we get diversity into bluegrass, but how do we get diversity back into bluegrass?

Chinese cuisine has so much diversity, the area it covers is so great and so is the taste.

For me, diversity is just so important and I want my children to be able to watch TV and see themselves.

Hollywood needs more diversity.

There is so much diversity in India in terms of religion, schools of thought, everything.

I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.

Africa doesn't look like it's changed that much to me since I first went in '94. There is still a major economic divide, but the rights of Africans have changed and progressed.

There is a built-in appreciation for music that is so much a part of the LDS culture. Utahns know that music can be divine and can touch a person's spirit in a unique way.

I like to honor my West African and Taino ancestry, I consider it sacred and divine.

What I have a problem with is money and name at the expense of talent and culture.

At least in my performances, the audience has become so diverse in a way that I don't think ballet has ever experienced.

There is a misconception that I've experienced in my life about people that live in the South. I got sent away to school in Connecticut in the late Eighties, and kids were honestly asking me, 'Do people there wear shoes?'

What happens here, the daily agenda of Arsenal, is very different from what I experienced in Monchengladbach.

I secretly wish I had experienced advertising in the 'Mad Men' period.

I think that diversity is key for the next American entrepreneurs. They want to be a part of this society where there is so much diversity they have to have people from all the experiences.

Well-roundedness comes not from sitting in a classroom but from experiencing the larger world.

American culture is not about experiencing our shame, it's about denying it. It's been that way our whole history.

I loved experiencing city life in New York.

My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.

The thing about black women and black hair is that you just have to experiment.

In China, literally in elementary school, we have to sit a certain way. You can't raise your hand anytime, you can't speak in class. So it takes a lot of courage and experimenting to kind of try to break that.

Saris are beautiful and always in. I don't mind experimenting with drapes.

I'm no real expert on China.