Quotes About Culture

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

Whether I work or not depends on the family I get married to.

My reasons for coming to get married in Calcutta are complicated, and it's very hard to put it into a sentence. People ask me why. To me, it just felt like a very natural and exciting decision.

I will get married to a guy of my parents' choice.

What I like about music is that you make a song, you've got your ideas in it, and people make that song part of their life - they hang out with their friends to it, they get in arguments to it, they get married to it, they get divorced to it. It's in their world, and it takes on its own life.

It has this royal feeling - one doesn't get this feel anywhere else; the culture here is so rich and the people here are so respectful - that was one of the reasons why I decided to get married at the Tijara Fort in Alwar.

If I had to do it all over again, I would still get married at 16.

Arranged marriages are ones where you got to learn who the person is after you actually get married, which can be challenging.

I am being chided every day at home to get married.

Some of the most rewarding times my brothers and I have are when all of us get together, and we can see what we've been building genetically and culturally.

I find Gurgaon to be more focused on fitness - the culture and the lifestyle in Gurgaon is such that fitness gets incorporated into a person's routine.

I think the race situation is getting better as far as people respecting each other goes. I think the race situation with entertainment is not that much better.

I was a girl who was told that girls should not have their voice. I was from a conservative Muslim family where they only think about their daughters getting married.

I shocked my parents with a lot of things, whether it was becoming an actor or when I was dating someone outside the Egyptian community or when I moved away from home before getting married.

My mom is from Ghana, and my dad is from Detroit, so I would go back and forth to Africa a lot.

I always spend my summer in Ghana. I don't go anywhere else.

I grew up in the U.K. and now reside in the United States, and my family is from Ghana.

I do feel my African side, but I've always wanted to play for Germany. Ghana did contact me, but I told them and my dad that I was sure I wanted to play for Germany.

I'm from Ghana and I grew up in Hackney around a lot of aunties which exposed me to beauty and skin stuff.

You're either ghetto or you're not.

I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.

The roots of my music start from the ghetto.

If I grew up, you know, in the ghetto, like, and I wasn't taught any other way to talk or a way to act or other food to eat or just like anything like that, like, when I'm I supposed to do? You know, like, is there a class I'm supposed to take to learn how to be white, you know?

I feel like I'm going to be like the ghetto 'Gilmore Girls' because I feel like this child is going to be more mature than I am because just look at me!