It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.'
Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years. It's a name that the streets taught me, a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment.
To its credit, hip-hop is my favorite genre, to this day, and it's hard not to be influenced by the culture and by the movement of it and by the soul of it.
I believe in accessibility. I believe in honesty and a culture that supports that. And you can't have that if you're not open to receiving feedback.
I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown of my feet by any.
Use your own reason to find the truth. And to do this, you must first get rid of the myths that your culture injected to your brain!
My culture is my identity and personality. It gives me spiritual, intellectual and Emotional distinction from others, and I am proud of it.
There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood.
I do a lot of cultural material that's based on my traveling around the world. I basically just report what I've seen and where I've been.
Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.
Being an American is such a rich environment, because there's so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you're able to see other people's experiences.
The deaf culture is portrayed very accurately on 'Switched at Birth' because the writers did the opposite of the norm. They did their homework before portraying anything on television.
We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is.
If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.
'Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.
I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large.
It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.
Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?
In Australian culture, people are just more laid back, people aren't as serious, they just take their time with things. It's just like, whatever, if I don't get it done I don't get it done.
Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears and are thus inherently incredibly interesting and powerful.
What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.
