“Our critique of Israel has to be about the state, not culture or religion, but the state of Israel”

When a woman writes you a poem, she spends time with the gods on your behalf.

May your hands be an extension of your heart and may you do the work of love with them.

Hatred doesn’t just hurt the people being hated, it hurts the people housing the hatred

The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.

Eating disorders are like a gun that’s formed by genetics, loaded by a culture and family ideals, and triggered by unbearable distress.

We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.

It really moved the dial politically. That’s what is needed in the women’s movement – a strategy that can drive awareness and culture change.

The blues is like a planet. It’s an enormous topic. You can’t ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It’s a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. It’s indelible and indispensable.

There’s no such thing as “fixed” culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems.

[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.

Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.