Quotes About Culture

Hair in the black community is such a big thing culturally. The barbershop is a place for black men to socialise, catch up and bond. It's the same for black women in the salon. Going there is my favourite thing to do in the week. You catch up with people, someone comes around with food, someone else is selling something.

There is something about being people from your home country in a different country. It bonds you together.

Europe has been in my bones.

Like books and black lives, albums still matter.

Race, class, childhood experience, the books I found on my mother's bookshelf, the albums I found in my father's basement - these things are all part of who I am and will always be a part of my work.

It's weird for me to say I'm lucky when I can't go into a bookstore and have more than five choices if I want to read something about Asian-American characters.

I love basketball and I love playing it, but there will be a stage in my career when I have to hang the basketball boots up, which is why I'm more than happy to have my culture with me.

I've gone across that border many times. My son was born in the United States; he is also a Mexican-American with the two passports.

I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.

Basketball Without Borders is very important.

Movies don't have borders.

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

To me, the difference between New York and London is that things are boring and staid in London.

What do I think of L.A.? It's boring, with some amazing nuggets. Like there are some parts of it that are great, but by and large I think it's quite boring.

Audiences don't want to see the kind of self-indulgent, boring dance that is so prevalent today.

When I was 16, I watched a lot of world cinema. I borrowed a lot of my personality from cinema. It has been one of my biggest teachers.

My father is Croatian but went to school in Bosnia, and my mother's also Croatian but lived in Bosnia.

I'm from outside of Boston, and in Boston, people are so passionate about their Irishness.

All my family's from Boston.

You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.

I'm from Boston - everyone says 'awesome,' but there are a lot of people in Boston who say 'awesome.'

I've lived in Boston.

I grew up in Boston.

We love our history in Boston.