cultural embodiment Quotes

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.

Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.

America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing.

Look at me and tell me if I don't have Brazil in every curve of my body.

You are not doing hip hop; you ARE hip hop.

The bottom line is, Texas and its people are pretty much what most people mean when they use the broader term 'America.'

I won't say he [Shakespeare] 'invented' us, because journalists perpetually misunderstand me on that. I'll put it more simply: he contains us. Our ways of thinking and feeling-about ourselves, those we love, those we hate, those we realize are hopelessly 'other' to us-are more shaped by Shakespeare than they are by the experience of our own lives.

I grew up in Queens in N.Y., and in parts of my neighbourhood, there were a lot of Italian Americans and a lot of people who were either affiliated with nefarious people or had seen so many movies that they were embodying that.

I always wanted to be a Freshman because XXL is really important in the history of hip-hop. It embodies the culture.

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people.

The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history.

I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people without even realising.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Superheroes were created in America, they're most popular in America, and at their best, they embody American ideals.

Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving winged feet toits god of art. Latin is the embodiment of the weighty and concentrated speech which is hammered and pressed and polished into the shape of its perfection, as the ethically minded Romans believed that the soul also should be wrought.

I understood....that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.

No more do we create cultural artifacts that are simply our furniture, but now it's our thoughts, our values, are embodied in this [digital] stuff.

The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought.

The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.