A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.
What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
How can you analyse what is funny? What's funny to one isn't funny to another... What's funny to you is a personal thing.
When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world.
Blackness is not a monolith. We are not homogenous people; we are not all the same.
African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.
The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.
We're going to have the same demographic spread of nutcases and the same spread of everybody in between.
