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There was a time when I was knocking on doors and concerned with being recognized in dominant culture. I've found a space where the terrain is different, where I'm embraced by people like me, and where I'm building new ways of doing things, as opposed to trying to insert myself in a place that might not be welcoming.
Ava DuVernay
Time
Myself
Me
Culture
People
Space
Building
Doors
Ways
Recognized
Embraced
Insert
New
Knocking
Like
Welcoming
Terrain
Concerned
Doing
Opposed
Dominant
Trying
New Ways
Being
Where
Different
Place
Might
Found
Things
Especially when we're dealing with issues of race, culture, identity, and history, the time has passed for the 'white savior' holding the black person's hand through their own history.
Ava DuVernay
Time
History
Culture
Black
Own
Holding
White
Savior
Through
Identity
Dealing
Passed
Issues
Hand
Person
Race
Rap was started by black people and, thus, is at the foundation of black culture. So people cannot always wrap their minds around someone like me being inspired by it. But if you listen to the things we're saying, they're authentically us.
Awkwafina
Saying
Me
You
Culture
People
Black
Minds
Rap
Wrap
Someone
Inspired
Thus
Like
Around
Always
Listen
Being
Cannot
Us
Foundation
Things
Started
Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more than we would tolerate violent oppression espoused by any other bully in the name of a twisted rationale.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Religion
Culture
Women
Oppression
Other
Recognize
Would
More
Rationale
Longer
Name
Bully
Than
Any
Us
Tolerate
Let Us
Twisted
Violent
In Holland I have seen well-meaning, principled people blinded by multiculturalism, overwhelmed by the imperative to be sensitive and respectful of immigrant culture, while ignoring criminal abuse of women and girls.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Culture
Women
People
Girl
Seen
Criminal
Respectful
Immigrant
Imperative
Abuse
Principled
Blinded
Well-Meaning
Women And Girls
Overwhelmed
While
Sensitive
Holland
Ignoring
Multiculturalism
I think culture is a very challenging thing to reverse.
Ayanna Pressley
Culture
Think
Reverse
Very
Challenging
Thing
In Afghan culture, you don't date - you marry. Even talking to boys before marriage brings great shame to your family.
Azita Ghanizada
Great
Family
You
Marriage
Culture
Before
Marry
Date
Shame
Talking
Boy
Afghan
Your
Even
Brings
Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.
Baba Kalyani
Good
Culture
World
Problems
Perspective
Whatever
Own
Good Intentions
Everywhere
Minister
Running
Prime
Prime Minister
Empires
Import
Policy
Trade
Controlled
Six
Intentions
Whether
Creates
Apparatus
Manufacturing
Including
Here
If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Science
Animal
Culture
Experience
Feeling
Other
Consistently
Critique
Something
Only
Arguing
Am
Years
Denied
Existence
Than
Human
Acknowledgement
Consciousness
Last
Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.
Barbara Kingsolver
Day
You
Culture
Hate
Law
Motherhood
Everyone
Our
Say
Those
Practically
Children
Against
Your
Moments
Actually
Culture should be shared, not hoarded.
Bari Weiss
Culture
Shared
Should
Our culture hasn't stopped objectifying women. We - men and women both - are just getting better at pretending it's not happening.
Bari Weiss
Culture
Women
Better
Pretending
Men
Men And Women
Our
Both
Getting
Getting Better
Just
Stopped
Happening
I like that part of the culture of 'MST3K' is this constant dialog on what movies could be done and what movies should be done. I've seen plenty of bad movies and walked out afterward thinking 'That would have been perfect for 'MST3K.''
Baron Vaughn
Culture
Seen
Thinking
Plenty
Out
Bad
Would
Constant
Perfect
Could
Part
Like
Dialog
Been
Walked
Done
Afterwards
Movies
Should
The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically.
Barry Ritholtz
Culture
Revolution
Interstate
Software
Dramatically
Saw
System
Rapidly
Seeds
Rise
Postwar
Highway
Period
Also
Industry
Were
Semiconductor
America
Automobile
Availability
Planted
Electronics
Credit
The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play.
Barry Sanders
Best
Me
Game
Culture
People
Important
Mark
Our
Significance
Voted
Because
Ultimate
Lot
Left
Ever
Play
I try to communicate in a way that allows people in on what's going on. What's better than references to popular culture?
Bart Chilton
Culture
People
Communicate
Better
Try
Way
References
Than
Going
Popular
Popular Culture
We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.
Bartlett Sher
Forgiveness
You
Culture
Compassion
Down
Enormous
Drill
Fact
Support
Lot
Get
American
Being
In Fact
Really
Amount
Core
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
Baz Luhrmann
Culture
Dance
Think
True
Any
Form
Leveler
I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.
Bebe Rexha
Culture
First
Signed
Record
Record Deal
Part
Songwriting
Deal
Got
Wanted
Pop
Pop Culture
Started
In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore he must be a sort of thoughtless dilettante, solipsistic consumer blahblahblah. It's hard to shake those sort of narratives.
Ben Affleck
Culture
People
Our
Dilettante
Those
Thoughtless
Must
Shake
Guy
Consumer
He
Sort
Narratives
Got
Very
Get
Movies
Much
Hard
Therefore
Jennifer
Jennifer Lopez
Bombed
We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.
Ben Barnes
Culture
Live
Evident
More
Obsessed
Industry
Aesthetically
Than
Film
Film Industry
Conservative voters will put up with a lot of things in the culture that disagree with their views. They have proven time and again they will roll their eyes at actors and musicians saying negative things about the presidents and candidates they vote for and still consume their product.
Ben Domenech
Saying
Time
Musicians
Vote
Eyes
Culture
Conservative
Disagree
Negative
Will
Presidents
About
Consume
Put
Voters
Still
Proven
Lot
Up
Roll
Candidates
Again
Product
Views
Actor
Things
If you're a conservative who thinks the culture wars are over (they're never really over, of course), then you are a lot more open to the idea of a unprincipled blowhard who promises he's got your back on political correctness.
Ben Domenech
You
Culture
Conservative
Political
Promises
Back
Correctness
Unprincipled
More
Never
Open
He
Idea
Over
Course
Got
Political Correctness
Lot
Then
Really
Your
Who
Wars
Thinks
Jindal's record in Louisiana is controversial, in part because, in a state which has historically favored patronage culture and a bureaucracy that offered uninterrupted employment for those who backed the right horse, he aimed to destroy the old spoils system.
Ben Domenech
Culture
Old
State
Backed
Those
Destroy
Favored
System
Record
Horse
He
Part
Spoils
Employment
Because
Historically
Offered
Louisiana
Bureaucracy
Controversial
Patronage
Which
Who
Right
It is unhealthy to live in an environment where every aspect of our culture requires a great sort, where creative talents are for some but not for all, and where performing for the president of the United States becomes a point of regular and significant controversy.
Ben Domenech
Great
Creative
Culture
Live
Every
President
Our
States
Significant
Some
Point
Environment
Performing
Talents
Sort
Becomes
Controversy
Where
Unhealthy
Regular
Aspect
Requires
United
United States
Conservatives recognize that college campuses and their frames of reality have an outsized impact on the culture, training the next generation of leaders.
Ben Domenech
Generation
Culture
Reality
Training
College
Conservatives
Frames
Recognize
College Campuses
Impact
Leaders
Next
Next Generation
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