Quotes About Culture

When I was a teenager, I never knew anything about art. I think in South Africa at that stage, no one was really exposed to it. There were no museums that had great artists in them.

I loved going to the movies, especially when I was a teenager in the seventies. How couldn't you in what was perhaps the greatest era of auteur cinema?

For me, cinema is very important. I grew up with television; then, as a teenager, you discover cinema.

I was a child in the '60s and a teenager in the '70s, which was the golden age of film as far as I'm concerned, between American film and the Italian reinvention of genre film.

I grew up learning martial arts in Korea; my dad actually brought in an Olympic instructor to teach me as a teenager.

I think the stuff that plays on the radio, the majority of it is for teenagers, which is okay. That's what pop radio is about. And some of it is great, and some of it is not.

I was like other teenagers in the late 1960s; I too was very interested in having an Afro and getting rid of the perm that was in my hair.

We are living in an age where teenagers are not going to the movies.

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

But I don't write about sex for today's teenagers. Or Doc Martens boots either. I'm more interested in exploring how exactly the world is run, which doesn't really change that much from one generation to another.

Teenagers especially are very, very conscious about what is hip and what is lame and what is square and what is out and what is in, you know. And, I mean, I grew up right there in the middle of a black culture. And I knew dead-on what it was.

If kids and teenagers can get into a band, it's probably not because they think it's brainy.

Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

I love being in a public space where teenagers are talking. And the funny thing is that it hasn't changed that much. There's certainly slang that I'm not familiar with, but among the average teen, it's still the same.

I don't think teenagers in 2017 identify with heterosexuality, and that's a positive.

Street dance resonates for teenagers. It's inclusive and brings in different audiences.

I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back.

Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture.

We were teens in the Eighties, and that's the kind of music that we all grew up on. When you're in those really formative years, from, like, 13 to 19, what you listen to is so influential, and I think that's just part of our being now.

By the time I was in my teens, I was listening to Delta blues and jazz.

Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.

People don't know what to do when writing a story with teens that takes place now - they think you have to make a bunch of references to Facebook.

I wanted to have a book that showed there's no one way to sound black. I wanted to tell teens that the way you speak is okay; you're good the way you are.

The thing that I find interesting about teens now is that no matter how desperate we seem to be taxonomically 'othering' them, for one reason or another - because the Internet, because whatever - I feel like a lot of the benchmarks and the experiences are, you know, same for teens through time immemorial.