3,162 Quotes About Culture

Dear black boy, I know your high is not of God, but of the leaf. I know, deep down, that you believe.

Dear black boy, I know you sag your jeans as a metaphor. I know your self-esteem hangs much lower than that.

Dear black boy, I know your “drip” is an ocean of pretense. I know your “ice” is the element you traded your soul with.

Our culture encourages us to plan every moment and fill our schedules with one activity and obligation after the next, with no time to just be. But the human body and mind require downtime to rejuvenate. I have found my greatest moments of joy and peace just sitting in silence, and then I take that joy and peace with me out into the world.

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

Perhaps the cultural Christianity needs to become full-on no-excuses Christianity. You need light to fight the dark. It's the oldest story in the book.

Names are powerful and are prophecies of the future. The name you are called is a sign of what you are and what you would become.

Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college educations and mastery were the same things.

Illusory universality is the universality of the art of the culture industry, it is the universality of the homogeneous same, an art which no longer even promises happiness but only provides easy amusement as relief from labour.