Quotes About Culture

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

My mum is your archetypal Asian mum, always feeding people. If there was no food in the cupboard, she'd still manage to rustle up a feast - Bangladeshi food such as pilau rice, curry and korma.

I feel good when I come to Ahmedabad.

If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.

And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.

I'm not sure that the problem of violence in society can be put at the feet of the entertainment industry.

Growing up, we were always the feisty Latin girls.

When I found out more about the Maori culture, I fell in love with it, and with the people, too.

I'm in love with London. English boys are great. I completely fell in love with it over there.

I fell in love with L.A. To me, it is the most quintessentially American city.

I did not know I was a Midwesterner until I got there. I just fell in love with the people.

I am not writing for scholars or fellow critics, but for people who like to read, to look at pictures, and to know things.

I am a black British female artist, so I must be like Ms Dynamite, I must be like Shystie, I must be like Jamelia, but we're all different.

I was lucky to grow up in the '90s, when we had just as many strong female artists as male artists. That's a world I would like to live in again.

Maybe it's the feminine side of me, but I like that AM radio pop.

I love the half sari. It's very, very feminine and at the same time, has the look of a sari.

The U.K.'s got the most advanced relationship with masculinity, femininity and sexuality.

I mean, I don't want to come down on call-out culture, because I guess it has its place, but there was an interesting article I read by a black feminist writer who was saying it brings shame into the equation. And shame can be very paralysing to people.

Why am I not feminist? Maybe because I come from a country where my mother ruled my life. I never felt in any way that I couldn't achieve what I want.

As a result of the feminist revolution, 'feminine' becomes an abusive epithet.

I took my teaching responsibilities very seriously... I taught some great courses: Legal history to feminist theory, courses in American mass culture... I love teaching - I mean really love it.

Events such as the 1991 Tailhook debacle have been seized upon and used by feminists to attack the military culture and bring about major concessions.

I thought I was half white or something because I only know white people as Ferguson as their last name.

Driving for Ferrari is completely different. Not in the way you work, the way of working is similar in whatever team you go - especially in the top teams. But it's different because it's like a religion.