American culture Quote by Saul Williams

The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry.

— William A. Henry III

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

“What terms might be used to describe such a solipsistic, self-consumed, bottomless emotional vacuum and sponge as she now appeared to herself to be?”

— David Foster Wallace

“As long as the self is consumed in the struggle to make itself lovely, it cannot love. First it must come to the end…

— Mike Mason

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

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

I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie