Culture Quotes - Page 33

• On the aesthetic level, decolonized music presents itself as a direct antagonist to the traditional values promoted by the culture industry.

  Bocafloja

  Levels, Aesthetic, Antagonist

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• We have to remember examples of many artists of conscious rap who have been coopted by the Department of State of the United States to be cultural ambassadors in different parts of the world, like Syria, like other parts of the Middle East, including conscious Islamic-American rappers that are representing an international political agenda for the United States through cultures more affable for people of color in other parts of the world.

  Bocafloja

  Rap, Islamic, Artist

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• What is MTV doing and what is the hegemonic culture industry promoting in gangsta rap? It is the glorification of violence for the sake of violence, the violence itself, like consumption for the sake of consumption, hypermasculinity writ-large with an adapted potency.

  Bocafloja

  Rap, Gangsta, Mtv

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• MTV and the culture industry never are talking about community relevance, hood organization, they aren't talking about ethical codes, they aren't talking about forms of political organization, they don't speak about codes inside the jails. What they talk about are superficial things.

  Bocafloja

  Talking, Mtv, Organization

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• A lot of the exercise of embracing identity as a political affirmation is not just simply parked in the question of skin color or culture, but more it is a political affirmation with all these implications and more.

  Bocafloja

  Exercise, Skin Color, Political

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• What inspired me most was the resilience of the Cambodian people. The country is still living with the trauma of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. People lost everything - family, friends. The rich culture of Cambodia was nearly extinguished. They are a nation of survivors. And while poverty and infant mortality affect a disproportionate amount of the people there, those I met were hopeful for the future and doing the best they can with
  what they had.

  Joy Bryant

  Country, People, Hopeful

  "Interview: Actress + Oxfam Ambassador Joy Bryant". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• China is a great nation that offers the world a great culture, so many good things. I love the Chinese people and I hope there is the possibility of having good relations. We're in contact, we talk, we are moving forward but for me, to have as a friend a great country like China, which has so much culture and has so much opportunity to do good, would be a joy.

  Pope Francis

  Country, Moving, Opportunity

  "Pope Francis: 'I’m not a star, but the servant of servants of God'". Vatican Radio translation of Pope Francis' press conference, www.news.va. September 28, 2015.

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• I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration. We fundamentally have been a culture that's been put together from the explosions of other cultures. But it's hard for us to see. We have blinded ourselves to the reality of what our country is.

  Junot Diaz

  Country, Reality, Thinking

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.

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• If you look at the curricula of most universities and schools in this country [USA], considering our long encounter with the Islamic world, there is very little there that you can get hold of that is really informative about Islam. If you look at the popular media, you'll see that the stereotype that begins with Rudolph Valentino in The Sheik has really remained and developed into the transnational villain of television and film and culture in general.

  Edward Said

  Country, Islamic, School

  Source: progressive.org

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• It is very easy to make wild generalizations about Islam. All you have to do is read almost any issue of The New Republic and you'll see there the radical evil that's associated with Islam, the Arabs as having a depraved culture, and so forth. These are impossible generalizations to make in the United States about any other religious or ethnic group.

  Edward Said

  Religious, Issues, Evil

  Source: progressive.org

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• Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent.

  Randall Robinson

  Country, Thinking, Descent

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• Every people, in order to remain healthy and strong, has to have a grasp of its foundation story. Culture is a chrysalis - it is protective, it takes care of you. That's what cultures are for. You cannot rob a people of language, culture, mother, father, the value of their labor - all of that - without doing vast damage to those people.

  Randall Robinson

  Mother, Strong, Father

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• One of the biggest dishes in Sicily is couscous, and there's always been a North African influence on Italian culture, culinary culture there.

  Jonas Carpignano

  Italian, Influence, Culinary

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Because there's such a long tradition of the arts being very prominent and very varied in Cuban culture and society, people do use the art world as a space for critical reflection and people look to it for that.

  Rachael Price

  Art, Reflection, Space

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I didn't want to try and borrow kudos from Indonesian culture. I was trying to get a fresh perspective on these instruments. I'm not doing a Paul Simon Gracelands and stealing all this African music and not give anyone any credit.

  Squarepusher

  Giving, Perspective, Trying

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I don't like MTV, and I don't like the culture that goes with it. It's OK in very small doses, maybe. Nevertheless, it's a social reality and has influenced how kids perceive things around them, the pace of life and the way people do things.

  Seymour Papert

  Kids, Reality, Mtv

  "Sunday Interview - Seymour Papert/ Computers in the Lives of Our Children/ an Mit Mathematician and Philosopher Is Exploring How Technology Can Educate the Next Generation - and Their Parents". www.sfgate.com. February 2, 1997.

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• Our [western] culture embraces sex addiction. If I drink too much or rack up credit-card debt or lose the rent in Vegas, that's bad. But if I have many lovers, that's good.

  Susan Cheever

  Sex, Vegas, Addiction

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I came to grotesque language in the patriarchal culture under the dictatorship. The body that was broken into pieces is a sick body. I put the disease of this world and my sick body together.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Sick, Broken, Together

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We have certain rules for traditional lyric poetry in Korea. I twist my body, confused by what to say and how to act, facing these rules. Confronting traditional lyricism, I speak with a bare body without the tattoos of culture on it.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Tattoo, Confused, Korea

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Korean feminism has been swept away by popular culture. It became a sort of old-fashioned trend or a joke.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Feminism, Trends, Korean

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It seems Korean women are enjoying a passive and fragile status, intoxicated by appearance. Not only feminism, but any serious discourse ends up being swept away by popular culture in Korea.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Korea, Feminism, Serious

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Hip-hop culture is deeply rooted in the wrong things. Hip-hop is about drugs right now. It's more so about drugs - about selling drugs, about using drugs - it's bad for kids.

  Vince Staples

  Kids, Hip Hop, Drug

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• Films portraying successful black people getting married are great, but films that only show one aspect of our culture, bother me.

  Drake

  Successful, People, Black

  HipHop Canada Interview, www.hiphopcanada.com. July 12, 2006.

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• A lot of native culture has been destroyed. So you already feel lost inside your culture. And then you add up feeling lost and insignificant inside the larger culture. So you end up feeling lost squared. And to never be recognized, to never have any power, you know, other minority communities actually have a lot of economic, cultural power.

  Sherman Alexie

  Community, Feelings, Feeling Lost

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Rich people, they stay out of jail not just because they have more money but because they grew up in a culture where they're educated by people to say, "I don't have to talk to the cops. If I get arrested, I'm not going to say a word to them. I'm just going to wait until my family lawyer gets here".

  Immortal Technique

  Jail, People, Waiting

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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