Quotes About Culture

I never really liked Italy. 'Lots of cement' is my long-standing quote.

To make an absolutely gross generalization, I think a lot of people feel like if you're mixed, more often than not you're quote unquote white. So if you're mixed, you embrace the mainstream culture more than the African-American culture.

Race is more like a language than it is like the way in which we are biologically constituted.

Cultural inequality is not grounded in race or ethnicity.

I think it is about time that equipped women began to take on some of the ethical questions which a male-dominated culture has produced and dissect and analyze them quite to pieces in a serious fashion. It is time that 'half the human race' had something to say about the nature of its existence.

When I go back home now, when I go back to Nigeria now, I get off the plane in Lagos and I just don't think of race. I get on the plane and arrive in Atlanta, and immediately I'm aware of race.

My mom and dad are from Mexicali, and I feel more Mexican than others who were born in Mexico because I fought for my race and for Mexico.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

Race, to me, is a very blurry thing.

Flame mails and offensive Internet activities are not classy. It doesn't fit with our culture here, where we respect the gender, race, opinions, ear-lobe apparel and choice of clothing of all employees.

We all have preconceptions of people based on what we have been told about them and their race and ethnicity.

We encrypt 'Drag Race' with the secret language that kept gay people linked for many years before the '80s.

Living in Indy, you have to be a race fan.

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

When you set a play in the French Quarter in New Orleans, it's hard not to acknowledge the whole African-American, French, white mixing of races. That's what the French Quarter is: it's a Creole community.

We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below.

Any time you have people of different races in a movie that's about America, there's going to be a racial component.

God created the races. He created different backgrounds and cultures. But He created them all to operate under His authority.

But it's different in England. We have different players from different races, even in the lower leagues. They don't have that in some places abroad.

If the idea of separate human races is a mistake to begin with, then monoracial forms of identification are fictitious and counterproductive.

I just hear Montreal is nice, especially during the summer months. It's supposed to be a clean city. The races I've watched up there, it always looked like a good time.

In Baton Rouge, blacks have always been looked at differently from other races, and the blacks who are fortunate, don't express themselves like I do.

I grew up in a culture of motorbikes. So I like racing just fine. Quite a lot, actually. That was when I was a boy in Australia. And I never really made the jump to cars after that.

Horse racing is waning in popularity.