#culture

History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon? ↗

— Dan Brown

#culture

When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture. ↗

— Afrika Bambaataa

#culture #hip-hop #part #rap #talk

The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it. ↗

— Anderson Cooper

#about #celebrity #celebrity culture #culture #end

At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture. ↗

— Martha Beck

#been #culture #diseases #disgusting #had

As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy. ↗

— Shelley Berman

#culture #deprived #elevated #i #i see

Eating is an agricultural act. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#food #politics #food

Watching Italians eat (especially men, I have to say) is a form of tourism the books don't tell you about. They close their eyes, raise their eyebrows into accent marks, and make sounds of acute appreciation. It's fairly sexy. Of course I don't know how these men behave at home, if they help with the cooking or are vain and boorish and mistreat their wives. I realized Mediterranean cultures have their issues. Fine, don't burst my bubble. I didn’t want to marry these guys, I just wanted to watch. (p. 247) ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#food #italy #mediterranean #food

Prejudice in this country is like chapters in a book. Chapter One: Hating the Africans and Indians. Chapter Two: Don't forget the Irish. Chapter Three: Polish jokes."..... "Hispanics? Latinos? Whatever you call us? Maybe we're Chapter Fifteen or Sixteen on the East Coast, but we're the preface in the West. ↗

— Emilie Richards

#controversy #culture #humor #prejudice #humor

No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward. ↗

— Karen Tei Yamashita

#imagination

I think it talks about that there needs to be some proactive attack against drugs infiltrating our culture. ↗

— Joe Morton

#against #attack #culture #i #i think