Taboo Quotes

But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.

Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way than through hip-hop.

I think it's really important that we have diversity - whether it's different languages, cultures - be involved in film and in the arts.

Doing any kind of culture in America in which you are not trying to affirm a European aesthetic is war.

I've always said that the more ethnic you become, the more international your film becomes.

It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.

The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

My cultural experiences were as important to my formation as many of the other things that happened to me.

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

I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to be plastered all over the radio for the masses.

Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think?

Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.

I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

I do worry because it takes all types to make our culture, to make our art. We need it to be available to all.

Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.

The work I've done through my Common Culture Music series has enabled me not only to share my joy of music at scale but also promote the artists I love.

Well, I think, you know, the arts are really what - one of the things that make this country strong. We always think it's our economy or our military power, but in fact, I think it's our culture, our civilization, our ideas, our creativity.

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

Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.

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 love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.

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.