145 Quotes About Pop-culture


  • Author Roxane Gay
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    The moment we see a pop artifact offering even a sliver of something different—say, a woman who isn’t a size zero or who doesn't treat a man as the center of the universe—we cling to it desperately because that representation is all we have.

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  • Author Cher
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    Unless you're willing to look a little foolish, forget the possibility of becoming great.

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  • Author Rupaul
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    The point about pop culture is that so much of it is borrowed. There's very little that's brand new. Instead, creativity today is a kind of shopping process—picking up on and sampling things form the world around you, things you grew up with.

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  • Author Karen Tei Yamashita
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    No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.

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  • Author Marisa Meltzer
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    But wouldn't [the Spice Girls] have shown a little bit more solidarity if they had at least called themselves feminists? The feminist activist Jennifer Pozner was more dismissive,writing that it was "probably a fair assumption to say that 'zigazig-ha' is not Spice shorthand for 'subvert the dominant paradigm.

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  • Author E.C. Myers
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    Imagine: If shifting from one universe to another is like moving up or down to parallel layers, overlapping with one universe, then going to another timeline is like taking a jump to the left.' 'Or a step to the right,' Jena said wryly.

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