Kitty Kelley Quotes

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.

Music bears a great responsibility because it is so influential. Everybody listens to music. It is a very influential tool. To me, it is very important to the world... music is... to being... to life.

Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

Ideas have consequences that can transform society.

I want to change the world. I want to be a part of culture. I want to help teach.

You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

Culture does matter, but politics can change culture.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations

Cinema is a mirror that can change the world.

Simply as an exercise in efficient politics, Obama '08 rewrote the textbook. His accomplishment was historic and one that transformed how race and politics intersect in our society. Obama is the leading edge of this change, but his success is merely the ripple in a pond that grows deeper every day.

For me as an artist, pop culture has so much power and influences society on a regular basis - I see it in the kids; I see it in everyone that I encounter. Everyone is influenced by pop culture whether we want to be or not.

Music really matters in politics.

I feel like I influence more than just rap.

We've always believed that popular culture and populist politics go hand in hand. It's an honor to be working with so many respected and influential artists, and we're indebted to them for having the courage to speak out at a time when our country so desperately needs change. For our 2.5 million members and far beyond, the Vote for Change tour will have a seismic cultural impact.

In the 21st century, culture is power.

Naturally a direct comparison of terrorist and novelist is complete nonsense. But there was once a time when the novelist also had some influence on how his contemporaries thought, the way they saw the world, the way they lived.

If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow.

I remember going to see Amiri Baraka. It wasn't actually too long before he died. He said, "You've got to write to change the world!" I was like, "Not me, no, no, no, no."

Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.

I'm convinced the Beatles are partly responsible for the fall of Communism.

To change the world you'll need a pen.

What most of us must be involved in--whether we teach or write, make films, write films, direct films, play music, act, whatever we do--has to not only make people feel good and inspired and at one with other people around them, but also has to educate a new generation to do this very modest thing: change the world.

The only way to make a difference is to acquire power.