Quotes About Culture

For those from my era, my age, that 2Pac vs. Biggie war will go on forever about who is the greatest. But I was more of a Biggie dude.

The fact that in America bread lasts so long. You buy bread, and then it's bread forever - it's Forever Bread!

If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?

In India, we are parented in a way that we get very good values. But the whole culture forgets to tell us to also value ourselves. It's really OK sometimes to take into consideration your own happiness.

What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough?

During the 1990s, luxury became something exclusive and elitist. I think fashion got lost. It forgot about craft and culture.

People forgot how much pride I bring to Israel while playing in the Chinese league.

We seem, particularly over here in the West and in America in particular, to have forgotten that we are, in large measures, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves.

My family grew up in Florence. There I became what I am now, and those are things that cannot be forgotten.

We live in a cerebral society, in which we have forgotten how fascinating strength is.

I don't understand why they keep forks and spoons on the table while serving biryani. You are supposed to eat it with your hand, and I prefer it that way.

I wanted my art to deal with very formal concerns and to deal with very material concerns, and to deal with antecedents and art history, which for me go very far beyond just the influence of African-American artists.

Both my parents have done considerable work in theatre and I have grown up with that culture, but I still felt that I needed formal training.

My cultural experiences were as important to my formation as many of the other things that happened to me.

I wanted 'Formation' to be a woman empowerment song, but Beyonce made it into a culture empowerment song.

My family belonged to a very particular formation - middle-class and coloured, not black. That meant it had a closer connection to the plantocracy than many other people did. So I didn't feel like an ordinary black Jamaican boy.

I came up during the formative years of TV.

It's our culture, Christian history, that's what formed me. Even as an atheist, I believe. We're just built that way.

I'm definitely Australian and wouldn't have it any other way. I've been formed as an athlete in Australia.

My dad played football, too, in the former Yugoslavia.

As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.

If I am ever forced to choose between my identity as a Tamilian and an award from the central government, I will choose the former.

When I grew up in the '60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming '50s culture, even though we were like trying to express our own culture, like, the dominant culture was the thing that was forming us. And I think that that's true today.

Kibbeh comes in all forms, but most feature bulgur and meat.