Quotes about Culture

The actual number of atheists is quite small outside of Europe and Manhattan.

I grew up in a small town and never went to a Black school.

If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.

I grew up on listening to, like, Mantronix and BDP and EPMD and Kool G Rap and Ultramag and Public Enemy and Fat Boys and Run DMC and a lot of those early records, those Rubin-era records. Those were always snare- and stab-heavy records.

We're rediscovering Christianity as an Eastern religion, as a way of life.

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls.

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.

I always say to anybody who's going over to America for the first time, 'Whatever you do, go and see a popular mainstream film with a big audience.' Because people shout out. You never get that in Britain. Everybody's so quiet, scared to laugh. It's like being in church.