Culture Quotes - Page 39

• After many years of hip-hop as a nation we should have the sophistication to accept that their are distinctions between the corporate manifestation of hip-hop, sold as a commodity and package with sensational race, sex and violent imagery, and the hip-hop culture that kids are living everyday at a local level, which often doesn't dabble in that terrain.

  Bakari Kitwana

  Sex, Kids, Race

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• Locally lived hip-hop culture that is giving many of America's youth the tool they need to survive and thrive in America, in the face of public policy that have written too many young people off.

  Bakari Kitwana

  America, People, Giving

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• Few places in American culture have made as effective a case for entrepreneurship than hip-hop. Hip-hop tells young people that our society is offering very limited options for youth. And that while society points to a radical decline in living wage jobs for youth and meaningful and affordable education, hip-hop is offering an alternative legitimate economy that is giving youth hope.

  Bakari Kitwana

  Meaningful, Jobs, Offering

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• Hip-hop is a complex music and culture that has been reduced to a one-dimensional critique. Hip-hop's messages aren't all bad. Neither are they all good.

  Bakari Kitwana

  Hip Hop, Messages, Hips

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• I am trying to get folks outside the hip-hop culture to understand why, despite the negatives, young people find hope and refuge in hip-hop. I'm hoping that young people immersed in the culture will work harder to capitalize on the possibilities for great social change that hip-hop represents as a national unified cultural youth movement.

  Bakari Kitwana

  Hard Work, People, Hip Hop

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• As far as documentaries go, I believe unreservedly that they serve an important function in our culture. I'd love to be able to make both documentaries and feature films simultaneously, but so far that hasn't happened.

  Hirokazu Koreeda

  Believe, Important, Able

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Raising awareness about the Deaf culture is a huge cause that I advocate. Because both of my parents are deaf, I am passionate about it in an entirely different way.

  Grace Gealey

  Parent, Different, Passionate

  "Empire Actor Grace Gealey: Gratitude and Forgiveness". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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• I think we definitely want to focus on the simplicity aspect because it's something that's built into the culture even here at Twitter. Constraints inspire creativity.

  Biz Stone

  Creativity, Thinking, Focus

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Artists always live in the cracks anyway, whatever culture they're in. They're usually accustomed to not having much money, to kind of roughing it.

  Eric Drooker

  Artist, Cracks, Kind

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• So much of our cultural representation of what an investigative journalist looks like, in movies and pop culture, is about this really testosterone-filled dude screaming, "Give me what you got!" I didn't see myself as someone who would be good at or comfortable with that.

  Sarah Stillman

  Giving, Would Be, Looks

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Some of us, I think, us small, pompous arty ones probably read too much George Steiner and kind of got the idea that we were entering to this kind of post-culture age and that we'd better do something postmodernist - quickly, before somebody else did.

  David Bowie

  Thinking, Ideas, Age

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I started my professional career before the blogosphere existed in any sort of meaningful way. I think that my approach as a writer was certainly freer because I wasn't worried, I didn't have commenters on me right from the get-go. I didn't have this instant-reaction culture that young writers have to deal with now. I had different things - I was listed in the phone book and people would look me up and call me and yell at me, but that was about as bad as it got.

  Meghan Daum

  Meaningful, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As Indigenous peoples, we know there is more to the world. We know spirits exist. We know as women, because we're especially attuned to this kind of knowledge, that spirits exist and have a presence in our lives. Some of us are gifted and can communicate with the spirit world. Not everyone has that gift and can perceive the borders between the living and the dead and our society actively discourages us of exploring the knowledge of what many of us have already always known in our cultures.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Borders, World, Our Society

  "The Rumpus Interview With Sandra Cisneros". Interview with Olivia, January 13, 2016.

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• In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture.

  Eliza Griswold

  Western Culture, Doe, Different

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There is another innovation at Harvard which I think made a tremendous difference and that is the decision to try to recruit the very best person in the field for an available faculty position. In the period after World War II Harvard literally engaged in world-wide searches for the very best and created a culture in which it was simply unacceptable to hire friends and associates, to make decisions based on personal affections or inclinations.

  Henry Rosovsky

  War, Thinking, Differences

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The strong point of American research universities is the manner in which trustees, presidents and other senior executives retain a considerable amount of decision-making authority while at the same time maintaining a culture of open exchange and participatory debate.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Senior, Strong, Decision

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• There seems also to be a tremendous risk to indigenous cultures if we insist that all scholarship be conducted in English. We are, for example, dealing with ancient and very highly-developed cultures in Korea, Japan, China and the Middle East. What is the impact on cultural and scholarly vitality forcing everyone to do their work in English? I do not have an answer, but this issue has been very much on my mind.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Impact, Japan, Korea

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Why is thinking about crime or imagining crime so goddamn central to pop culture? It doesn't matter whether it's American TV or British TV. And there's entire sections of bookstores devoted to crime.

  Elliott Colla

  Thinking, Bookstores, Matter

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We human beings are spiritual beings. We have soul. We have spirit. We have mind. We have consciousness. We want fulfillment, we want happiness, we want satisfaction, we want joy. We want imagination. We want art, culture, music.

  Satish Kumar

  Spiritual, Art, Imagination

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Art, Sublime, Levels

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The Neapolitan novels have a lot of references to things outside, to things of the world, to culture, politics, the city of Naples. People have mentioned that Naples is like a character in the novels.

  Ann Goldstein

  Character, Cities, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm very fatalistic about life. Whatever happens, happens. The imperative for me is that I do my contribution for my people, for my culture. I still want to make films for them. I still want to make films that confront our struggles.

  Lav Diaz

  Struggle, People, Want

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I didn't major in anthropology in college, but I do feel I had an education in different cultures very early on. My parents divorced when I was eleven, and my father immediately married a woman with three children and was with her for five years. When they got divorced, he immediately married a woman with four children. In the meantime, my mother married a man who had seven children. So I was going from one family to another between the ages of eleven and eighteen.

  Lily King

  Mother, Children, Father

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were mine.

  Lily King

  Childhood, Feelings, Different

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There were a hundred booksellers in the old round city founded by the eighth-century caliph al-Mansur. The café and wine-drinking culture of Baghdad has been famous for centuries; there was a whole school of Iraqi poets who wrote poems about the wine bars of medieval Baghdad - the khamriyaat, or wine songs, that I quote in the book.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Song, Drinking, Book

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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