Culture Quotes

"Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be" "The age of spin is the age I'm livin' in." "People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories" "Music is always a commentary on society" "The power of humans depends on the power of our stories" "What is tolerated by the generations that precede us becomes an obstacle for the new generation" "I'm just a preacher trying to preach the gospel, the good news of this thing, which is diversity and the richness that it brings to our culture" "Every country, and climate, provides the vibes for its own underworld." "People always say 'You do racial comedy.' And I don't, exactly. I do cultural comedy. Because race and culture are two different things" "A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking." "Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us." "It’s fascinating to see how versatile New York City is. It lends itself to being so many different places!" "Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny" "For my people everywhere singing their slave songs repeatedly their dirges and their ditties and their blues and jubilees" "Every age has its own blindness."