Huda Kattan Quotes

I mix things from my Somali culture and my American side.

As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am in more than one sense a product of both the Chinese and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict.

I've always felt very much from a mixed culture - mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.

Literally everything good about this culture comes from mixing.

I mean, London has shaped me as a person. My parents are Nigerian so I've had the luxury of blending different cultures together just through my everyday life.

I have a lot of cultures within me - I'm basically chop suey.

I loved this idea of always being a foreigner. There's this thing where people bring cultures, bring the music together. I love it when the music, when the cultures collide and something sort of new comes out of it.

The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge.

The Hispanic culture is finding its way into the American culture. Places like Miami are going to be centers for that influence - places like Los Angeles and, certainly, cities in Texas.

The whole point is to take from our native culture and from contemporary culture without using one art form to mimic the other, so that our native identity remains the native identity, the contemporary identity remains the contemporary identity, and the mixing of these two musical identities creates a third musical identity.

I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.

I grew up having two different perspectives - one in English, one in Spanish. Two different cultures, very different - but I think that, to me, it's one. I'm just as American as I feel Latin.

I don't think you lose culture because you act different cultures.

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

The culture of Greece is not the same as the culture of Germany, and to fuse them into a single unit is extremely difficult.

Culture is mix. Culture means a mix of things from other sources. And my town, Istanbul, was this kind of mix. Istanbul, in fact, and my work, is a testimony to the fact that East and West combine cultural gracefully, or sometimes in an anarchic way, came together, and that is what we should search for.

I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other.

I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently.

Fact is, given a choice to erase or embrace Western popular culture, most Muslims would gleefully embrace it.

Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half-cultures do not make a culture.

The strength of a culture depends on its capacity to open itself up to other cultures, to integrate itself into them and to integrate them into it.

What goes into the Melting Pot determines what shall come out of it.

I ended up very American and very Indonesian and a little bit of a lot of things.

Culturally, I'm not 100 percent Korean. I'm very mixed and very open.

I am interested in the highbrow/lowbrow synthesis. My sensibility, I am proud to say, is middlebrow.