The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the…

American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems.

— Saul Williams

When it comes to dressing well, American culture is so self-fulfilled that it has not only disregarded this courtesy of self-presentation, but has turned…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A lot of contemporary American culture makes its way to this county. Cuba is not some gray, isolated backwater. This is a happening place.

— Assata Shakur

“Although relatively more open to same-sex unions, contemporary American culture nevertheless bristles with a need to categorize human eroticism, a force that by its…

— Siri Hustvedt

The principles of punk-rock culture, of self-expression and DIY culture, that really spoke to me.

— Princess Nokia

“Our culture, self-toxified by the poisonous by-products of technology and egocentric ideology, is the unhappy inheritor of the dominator attitude that alteration of consciousness…

— Terence McKenna

We see culture as a self-organising thing.

— Larry Harvey

Is virtue raised by culture, or self-sown?

— Horace

My life and career is defined by the constant pursuit of new forms of culture and self-expression.

— Melvin Van Peebles

“People accuse me of having interiorized a feeling of racial inferiority, so that I attack my own culture out of self-hatred, because I want…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

A high culture is the self-consciousness of a society. It contains the works of art, literature, scholarship and philosophy that establish a shared frame…

— Roger Scruton

I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?

— Harold Prince

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about…

— Jonathan Frakes

Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

— David Rockefeller

The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.

— William March