I mean, London has shaped me as a person. My parents are Nigerian so I've had the luxury of blending different cultures… — MNEK Copy Share Image
Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live.… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
We, as a culture, use television as at least one of the great arbiters of truth. Even though we know it's fiction,… — Peter Paige Copy Share Image
Where race is involved, there is a pronounced and proven tendency in the United States for the majority culture to willfully misremember… — Taylor Branch Copy Share Image
What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I felt like my culture was taboo, which is so wrong. And I, you know, I felt like everything that my family… — Iman Vellani Copy Share Image
Rahul Gandhi does not know Indian culture, so when he went to offer prayers at Kashi Vishwanath temple, he sat in a… — Yogi Adityanath Copy Share Image
Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“It might seem a little trite, all this trouble over a stupid wall. But you’ve got to understand, it was the wall… — Mark Russell Copy Share Image
Together we can change our culture for the better by ending violence against women and girls, artists have a unique power to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In my view, immigrants today aren't any different from immigrants who have come to America throughout our nation's history. They bring new… — Dick Armey Copy Share Image
You could perhaps better tell the story of a place by writing of a tiny village as a sort of prism into… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
I recently went to my staircase at Clare College, Cambridge and there were women there! There have been a lot of convincing… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
A meme (rhymes with dream) is a unit of information (a catchphrase, a concept, a tune, a notion of fashion, philosophy or… — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
The popes have spoken of human ecology, closely linked to environmental ecology. We are living in a time of crisis: we see… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and “transformed” her into a cheerleader… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
I was brought up in many different cultures, moving around all the time, and I find my identity in my songs. I… — Mika Copy Share Image
This is a comment on fear. Today it's like 'They're going to bomb the New York subway and there's the avian flu… — Adam Gollner Copy Share Image
My culture comes from everywhere. I'm sick of this notion of nationality, that if you're brought up in the same city or… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
It's sort of another innovation, probably a good innovation, of Western culture to separate the ideas between science and philosophy, but it's… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to be exposed to film, art, literature, culture, and then told, 'Yes, you can do that, too.' It's… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing. — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
Part of the shabbiness of our culture, if indeed it is shabby, is that it doesn't seem to prepare people. With all… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I have less time, less tolerance for bullshit, more interest in good taste, more confidence in my own judgement. The culture with… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
You could put Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley on one side of the stage, and James Brown… — Bill Wyman Copy Share Image
“When sociobiologists start shitting in their backyards with dinner guests in the vicinity, maybe their arguments about innateness over culture will start… — Laura Kipnis Copy Share Image
America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I love what I do because I get to talk to the people who change the game: the influencers, visionaries who make… — Angie Martinez Copy Share Image
This place is just too frickin precious," the cop said, eyeing a guy dressed in a hot pink leisure suit with makeup… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to… — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
Companies make a big point of how their culture is all about 'bad news first,' but when it comes to people, they… — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
Feudal Europe is over, but it found its way into film culture. It found its way into postmodern painting culture, and we're… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a… — Jerry Costello Copy Share Image
In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
