Cultural Classification Quotes

I never worry 'cause people always try to categorize me. "Oh, that's reggaeton." "Oh, he's a Latin rapper." "Oh, he's crunk." "Oh, he's a Southern rapper," or, "He's a club rapper." As long as they're listening to the music and they're talkin' about it, one way or the other, that means I'm doing something right.

I do realize the impulse to classify people by the food and art they consume is strong - sometimes I have to remind myself not to do that.

People always say "pop culture." As if we have some high culture to distinguish it from.

I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.

Regarding the idea of race, .. no agreement seems to exist about what race means. Race seems to embody a fact as simple and as obvious as the noonday sun, but if that is so, why the endless wrangling about the idea and the facts of race. What is a race? How can it be recognized? Who constitute the several races?.

It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language, and according to culture-all reflect the historical development of races from different standpoints; and that the results of the three classifications are not comparable, because the historical facts do not affect the three classes of phenomena equally. A consideration of all these classes of facts is needed when we endeavour to reconstruct the early history of the races of mankind.

I think that people are too... They've become genre snobs.

I've always felt I had more in common with the modernist approach than with postmodernism, but I can see where the connection might arise - and to be honest, I'm no academic, so I tend to use these words, like in Alice In Wonderland, to mean what I want them to mean rather than what they actually do mean.

I do go back to Ireland, and I'll probably be doing a film in Ireland in January, and I guess that kind of keeps me classified as 'the Irish actor,' but the last four or five projects that I've been in are either American or English, so I don't feel terribly trapped in that. But sometimes, yeah, you would like to not be called 'the Irish actor.' You'd prefer to just be called 'the actor.'

An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.

It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.

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

I didn't learn the word 'genre' until way, way late - I mean, like, in the '80s.