Quotes About Culture

I love British television. I love the irony, I love the authenticity and I love the roles I get put up for.

People get ideas of how to live or not to live from what you do on television.

Anytime a movie or television show retreats into certain American pasts, I'm both annoyed and relieved.

In the 1970s when I started in the art world, no self-respecting artist would have stood in line to try to get on a television show. It never would have happened.

I have been to the theater more since I have lived in New York than I ever really did in London working on a television show.

White people loved 'The Cosby Show,' especially liberal white people. They loved it because it was a great, funny, well - written, and beautifully performed television show.

I hate to say this about television, since I have a television show, but it's just mind-numbing to me.

I think, very often, little girls look at these teen television shows and think, 'I have to have a boyfriend because Blair Waldorf has a boyfriend, and she's always fighting over boys!'

Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.

The way Hollywood and TV is, black people don't have any choice but to see ourselves in white-dominated television shows and stories and movies.

Not so long ago, my feminist education taught me to ask the question, 'Is the gaze male?' The answer, apparently, is yes, which is why so many movies and television shows are about men and not women.

In Portugal, seeing a black cat is a bad sign; it's bad luck. But they tell me if it crosses from left to right, it's good luck. But I don't like black cats!

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.

If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel.

When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on the institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art.

I often hear things like, 'You don't look Latina enough,' and that mentality is so backwards. The fact is, I am Latina, so how are you going to tell me that I don't look Latina?

I want people to have a good impression of Israel. I don't feel like I'm an ambassador for my country, but I do talk about Israel a lot - I enjoy telling people about where I come from and my religion.

We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.

The human race has been telling stories since it began.

I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impact on culture when they do. So I really want to be a part of those movies that say something good to a lot of people.

I remember from my earliest years people speaking, you know, in a certain kind of rhythm and telling stories and sharing experiences in a way that was different in Indian country than it was other places. And I was really struck by this and obviously very affected by it, because it's always come out in my songs.

I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story.

The French are simply incapable of telling the truth.

Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.