Adrian Younge Quotes

Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all.

We must link Azamgarh to art and culture and not with terrorism and crime.

Chinese people need to be aware of their present and ask, 'What's our culture? What can we bring to the world?' I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them.

Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.

The one thing I've learned, getting out to all those foreign and domestic locales, is that people in every country of the 'civilized' world wish - either secretly or openly - that they had the expressiveness, the flair, the I'm-so-glad-to-be-me spirit that black folks have made a part of American life.

Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!

I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already interesting and engaging with pop culture for its own sake is just a quick way to seem and become dated.

You have to work at creating your own culture.

I think people respond to truth. 'Straight Outta Compton' made $60 million over the weekend, right? That's not just a black audience. 'Empire' grew every single week. That's not just a black audience. Black culture is American culture, you know what I mean? They're becoming more and more one in the same.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

National cultures and heritages must compete for man's attention with the mind-absorbing advances of universal science.

The ministry of culture is nowhere, but cultural life is everywhere.

Every culture is very important. Dartmouth has always been dedicated to diversity of culture.

My mother came from a very affluent background, very Westernized, while my father was more Eastern. So I've had a very good blend of the East and the West. I guess this has been extremely helpful in making my career and the way I function.

Taiwan has been so well developed economically. But we are underdeveloped culturally.

I'm looking forward to it, to be able to represent the black culture... but I'm doing my best at managing it, keeping it behind me, and that's the best thing I can do.

I'm with expanding in my culture, from the Dominican Republic all the way to Cape Verde. Please believe that.

It is really important for me to help my culture.

We need to have a view that culture has a value in itself, not just in terms of a social and economic value.

Culture should be shared, not hoarded.

If we are to reclaim our culture, we cannot afford narrow definitions.

If the American Negro is to have a culture of his own he will have to leave America to get it.

In Australia, we cling on to whatever culture we have. We're such a multicultural country.

I think my Latino culture has equipped me with a different point of view than the rest of my counterparts, and seeing things from a different angle has helped me a lot. I feel very proud of my culture, of my Latino heritage.