John Trudell Quotes

I feel like I've mixed my Middle Eastern and Western loves together.

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 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 mix things from my Somali culture and my American side.

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

Many countries had a hand in raising me. I am the product of many contradicting philosophies and cultures... My entire universe is comprised of these foreign traditions. If any one of these experiences are to be ignored, I wouldn't be the same.

I am constantly swimming on the margin, neither 100% American, French, nor Lebanese. I am none of those. I am the result of those three. Sometimes it's an asset: no one can put you in a category. That I do not make typical Lebanese, European or American films does not bother me.

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.

My mother's Puerto Rican and my father's Russian-Jewish, so we consider ourselves to be Jewricans or Puertojews. I think Puertojew sounds like a kosher bathroom, so I prefer Jewrican.

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.

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

Los Cabos has been an amalgam of many cultures that have been coming here. There have been beautiful Jesuit missions for example, in many places around this area. The towns are incredible. But there is a very strong Mexicanized culture here that exists because people from different parts of Mexico have come to live here.

What I want to tell people is that you can mix the culture a little bit and it's not always appropriation.

I can be a mix of both. I don't have to be an Indian or an American. They're not mutually exclusive. It's something growing up I didn't know.

I don't think there is only one Arab culture or a pure Arabness. We are very multiple, especially our generation, which is very multilayered.

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.

Few of us doubt that stealing is wrong, especially from the poor. But the accusation of 'cultural appropriation' is overwhelmingly being used as an objection to syncretism - the mixing of different thoughts, religions, cultures, and ethnicities that often ends up creating entirely new ones.

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

I am a Bengali. My mother is from Mangalore so it's a mix of both cultures at home.

I have a bit two overlapping personalities. I have my African half that gives me the hot blood and the warmth and the exuberance, and then I have my French side, which is quite a bit more reserved. It's not always easy to reconcile the two.

I'm not more Brazilian than I am American or vice-versa - I'm very much a combination of all of those things.