Quotes About Culture

I went to high school in Frisco, Texas, where a lot of people look the same, dress the same, act the same. People are either like, 'You're not black enough for this' or 'You're not white enough for this.'

Here's the deal on Texas. It's big. So big, there's about five distinct and different places here, separated from one another geologically, topographically, botanically, ethnically, culturally, and climatically.

I'm not a super blues player, but I was exposed to the Texas blues sound while I was growing up, and that definitely rubbed off on me.

I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.

I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.

I grew up in a little town in east Texas where it was really not on the table to question certain things like whether you should eat meat or not.

The bottom line is, Texas and its people are pretty much what most people mean when they use the broader term 'America.'

I went to a school called Chapman University, which is a wonderful film school. It was a great program, but it was very white, and it was a culture shock for me because I grew up in Houston, Texas, and I went through what they call magnet schools, so my friends were like a Benetton ad.

I love and respect the West - you can't live in Texas and not do that.

My father is from Jamaica, my mother is from the U.K., but I was adopted as an infant by a really wonderful family in Alberta, Canada. What we refer to as 'Texas of the North.'

In Texas, it's football. In Georgia, football. There's an appreciation from the average person about football more than anywhere else. And we have that for basketball in New York. And we'll always have that in New York.

I grew up in Texas, and I think anybody who grows up in the Midwest or in the South, it's just a different way of life.

Texas is more laid back, like Denmark is. So it was easier to adjust to that than to Los Angeles or New York for me.

I grew up on Geto Boys and of course UGK, who put my hometown of Port Arthur, Texas, on the map. I was about Goodie Mob and OutKast too.

I grew up in America - I was born and raised in Texas. I might look different, but at the same time, I'm pretty American.

Texas was a hotbed for professional wrestling when I was growing up.

I'm from Texas, so we used to wear our pants starched down like a cowboy. So when I got to New York, to New Jersey, everybody was laughing at me like, 'Look at his pants! His pants could stand up by themselves!'

Being a musician in Texas had its own set of risks.

My father 'Pappy' who is black, is from Galveston and Fort Worth, Texas. My mother, who is white, is from San Diego.

In Prosper, the city shuts down and everybody goes to the games... Everything shuts down. You're idolized around there... Texas high school football - it's a lifestyle. It's a culture.

Even in Texas, there's a lot of people who've never been to Lubbock.

All we did was take what we were and brought it forward. We obviously had a great amount of pride in being from Texas.

Moving from Cameroon to Texas, that was a change. Learning English, the culture, everything was different so I had to adjust.

Texas kind of operates as if we're our own little country.