Quotes about Culture

Finally, the complexities of black relationships are being portrayed in television and film.

When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'

Why do we always have to see black people in hindsight? Why are the Hollywood movies always historical? What about the contemporary image of black people?

Enron - although an extreme case - is hardly the only company with a hollow set of values.

I'm a big hip hop fan.

Really, I listen to more hip hop probably than most other things. That's where I get a lot of my influence from because it's so eclectic. So that's what I love.

We need to develop artists who are not just scoring films. I'm hoping 'Gully Boy' can help with that.

In Haryana, there are two things that are most important in a household. We don't care if we have a big house and several cars or not. But for us, in every household, the sons need to be strong, and the animals need to be in good health.

Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

I thought I had more of a European sense of humour than the average American comic.

Phuong had kept us a table at the edge of the dance-floor and the orchestra was playing some tune which had been popular in Paris five years ago. Two Vietnamese couples were dancing, small, neat, aloof, with an air of civilization we couldn't match. (I recognized one, an accountant from the Banque de