Quotes About Culture

Religion of your upbringing is like a cloak -- you must know how it is made in order to take it off.

Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.

Charlie's a prince of the Seminole Nation. His ancestors go back to the gods. He sells sea shells by the sea shore.

He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

Therefore, since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor, to obtain good customs.

But what are nations? What are these groups which are so familiar to us, and yet if we stop to think, so strange; which are as old as history ... what breaks the human race up into fragments so unlike one another, and yet each in its interior so monotonous?

I come from Glasgow and being from Glasgow everyone knows about Celtic and Rangers. It is a big part of most people's lives.

When I started writing, most of the police department in New York City, especially above the rank of detective, were Irish, Irish-American. I thought it would be more interesting... to use the actual ethnic background in New York City at the time.

I love Bob Marley's music. The only person I really listen to. A little bit of Shabba Ranks sometimes, but I mostly listen to Bob Marley.

The mission of Patrick Henry College was to attract and cultivate academic stars from the ranks of home-schooled evangelicals, then send them off on graduation day to 'shape the culture and take back the nation,' in the words of a common home-schooling rallying cry.

Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.

Rap is something you live; hip hop is something you do.

I'm not really into rap.

I just want to paint that picture of Chicago that everybody's missing, and I just want to rap about it.

Growing up, flute riffs was big in rap back then. It's what I listened to.

I think, British food, it's had a bad rap.

Lil B opened up the floodgates for Odd Future, and now rap has a huge Internet culture.

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.

I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me.

The fashion and the rap go hand in hand with New York City.

Our first conversation went like: 'So, what do you do in the Philippines for fun?' 'Well, I like to rap and breakdance.' And Will was like, 'What?? Me too!' That sparked our friendship and from then on, we were inseparable.

People don't want rap to be anything other than it is. But genres expand. My contributions, no matter how they sound, will always be rap, because they'll always be black.

My brother is 10 years older than me, so whatever he listened to is what I listened to, and it was all rap.

I'm huge into '90s rap. It's my jam.