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"The belief that established science and scholarship--which have so relentlessly excluded women from their making--are "objective"and "value-free" and that feminist studies are "unscholarly," "biased," and "ideological" dies hard. Yet the fact is that all science, and all scholarship, and all art are ideological; there is no neutrality in culture!"
"Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is fast becoming known as global culture."
"The gospel always comes to people in cultural robes. There is no such thing as a ‘pure’ gospel, isolated from culture"
"Our future can't be separated from the fact that we are all going to be increasingly compacted into urban areas, though we're different in race and culture and religion. And what we make of that will determine the American future."
"We didn't create the culture of film. We certainly market it better than anyone in the world, but film could have happened anywhere. It's not distinctly American, as witnessed by the fact that there are film communities throughout the world that tell stories to their own cultural liking."
"What do you expect from a culture and a nation that exerted more of its national will fighting against Disney World and Big Macs than the Nazis?"
"My shows will always be inspired by hip hop culture and my upbringing within it."
"Even though I'm English, I've all my life been heavily exposed to American television and culture in general."
"[Martin] Scorsese probably could have directed Schindler's List and [Steven] Spielberg probably could have directed Goodfellas. But it's as much to do with the difference in culture as it is with race."
"When politics is too slow, change has to come from culture."
"England, a happy land we know, Where follies naturally grow, Where without culture they arise, And tow'r above the common size."
"Another culture can be learned in the classroom for a single term, but it can be felt from a person for a lifetime."
"That's the thing. in medicine, you're used to saying there's a problem within the person, and saying there's a problem within the culture, that's not a medical answer. Medicine has to look in one direction, so there's only one type of answer that they can find."
"I just love New York. New York has energy, it has culture, New York is very diverse. There's not a better place in the world."
"Anyone should be able to express themselves in any context. Obviously, there are arguments against appropriation, but it's one thing when someone is doing something for satire or making fun of a culture, but if they respects the tenets of the culture and they want to be a part of that, what could be more beautiful than that?"
"[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved."
"Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop."
"By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people."
"I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me."
"A lot of cultures believe you take the placenta and you bury it and plant something."
