Quotes About Culture

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

What I like about Americans is if it's good music, that's the only thing that matters.

In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.

I pity Americans for their very bad fruits. Your 'mango' is cucumber. The only thing I really miss about Egypt is mangoes.

'Saturday Night Live' will always be this amazing, powerful behemoth, but it's also not the only thing happening in comedy anymore.

If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.

They all come from the street - tap, jazz and flamenco. And the streets are always changing. If it comes from the streets, change is the only thing that's consistent.

The problem with Egypt is that there is no public trust. There is no trust, period.

The problem with Islam is that it's a law, not a religion, and it's incompatible with our values, our rights, and our freedoms.

The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.

The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance.

The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.

I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it.

That is the problem with comedy in India. Spoofing sells. Come up with original comedy about the hilarious nation we are, with funny accents and odd rituals, and we get into trouble.

The problem with my peers is they don't understand television. You have to work within the confines of what executives will allow you to put on TV. Otherwise, we've not done anything, we've not really struggled to change the culture at all.

This is my favourite thing about being raised in Africa: we don't do labels very well; we don't do this, 'Oh, you're a Democrat; oh, you're a Republican.' Because we live in the real world.

L.A. is a bit strange. It doesn't seem like the real world.

Television is generally on the conservative side, so if you're seeing it represented on TV, that probably means it's really out there in the real world.

In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.

I think all these pop cultural media often reflect conversations we're having in the real world at that moment in time. I think one of the big conversations we're having as a culture is we thought we'd solved sexism and racism, and we're realizing more and more that we haven't.

The idea of the gay experience, it feels like a relic. I felt like in the '90s when we were watching the gay characters on 'The Real World,' there was definitely a gay experience that was distinct from a straight experience. If you talk to high schoolers in 2017, I don't know that is as much a part of how they experience a social dynamic.

As one of the first African-Americans to be out on a reality program, MTV's 'The Real World: Philadelphia,' I understand the courage it takes to live your truth on a national platform, the importance it holds to LGBT communities of color, and the power it has to create a greater conversation within American culture.