Quotes About Culture

African-American music tends to have, at the very least, a glimmer of hope to it - sometimes full-fledged hope.

When you're writing these things, you're in a room making each other laugh, you really have very little sense of political correctness or incorrectness. This is a question that Europe tends to ask and America doesn't.

American television tends to move faster than European or U.K. television.

What you find with singers, no matter where they're from, if they have any kind of an accent, the accent tends to disappear when they sing.

Mainstream media tends to showcase a very specific kind of Mardi Gras, but my experience of Mardi Gras is very different; it's very cultural.

As any successful mad scientist will tell you, energy ain't free. Popular culture tends to forget this, instead focusing on the destructive capabilities of our finely crafted death rays without noting the massive energy expenditures required to use them.

Innovation tends to be quite siloed in most organizations. There is usually a group over in one corner charged with innovation rather than making it everyone's responsibility.

We are a very youth-driven culture, and I don't really know why because wisdom tends to come with more years, not fewer.

I don't think it's such a bad idea that people learn the same history in school. I think it tends to ground people and give them something to respond to and react against.

Among Korean immigrants the majority tends to be Christian, because that was the way they immigrated to America - through the support network of churches. I grew up with faith being an important fabric of my life. That comes with my life in the South - it was just a given that you believe.

The food in central Asia is not so great: it tends to be horse.

I think, being from east Tennessee, you're kinda born with a little lonesome in your soul, in your blood. You know you've got that Appalachian soul.

Dolly Parton made me chicken and dumplings. That Tennessee woman can burn some pots! And we know that I am not necessarily shy to a fork!

In Tennessee, you can live off fast food. It's everywhere... But it's nowhere in San Francisco, and I didn't know how to navigate the city to eat.

My people came from western Tennessee and western Kentucky.

Tennessee is a program that I thought had a lot of tradition. A program that I thought stood for something.

I grew up in Tennessee. I loved to wear full glam. I used to want to wear flash lashes every single day. I remember wearing them once and someone was like, 'Are you wearing false lashes?' I felt embarrassed. In the U.S., it's perceived as though you're trying too hard.

I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. Big time blues and music city. It's always been in my bloodline.

Lots of girls marry at 16 in Tennessee.

Growing up in east Tennessee gave me my country roots, my twang, and a lot of my stories.

The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.

In our house, the name for all athletic shoes - any that weren't dress or 'church' shoes - was 'tennis shoes,' or 'tennies.'

Isn't it funny - why is it called a tennis bracelet? It doesn't seem very tennis, does it?

One Oxford poet confessed to me that I had been scary because I talked American and wore tennis shoes.