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“I heard Q-Tip on the Jungle Brothers' song 'The Promo.' It was very exciting. It was very new. The music and the culture around hip-hop was evolving. I think there's an emotional quality to their music and there's a vulnerability to the music. For me, A Tribe Called Quest was my Beatles.”

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Author:Michael Rapaport

“We all have what might be called a culturally modified brain, and as cultures evolve, they continually lead to new changes in the brain.”

Might Culture Brain Evolve

Author:Norman Doidge

“Beliefs. Once entrenched in a culture, they persist, evolve and diverge, in a manner reminiscent of biological evolution.”

Culture Belief Evolution Evolve Persist Biological Evolution

Book:The God Delusion

Source: The God Delusion

“Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved and maintained as an effect of some racial advantage. Rather it should be understood as an evolving process, governed by a dynamic of change, as both language and thought underwent transformational alteration caused by a transition from orality to literacy. The instrument of change is discerned to be the invention of the Greek alphabet, at a quite late stage in the history of developing cultures.”

“Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of the moment and what people will like right now; the idea is to somehow keep yourself in the public memory so that as taste evolves it will eventually come to embrace your thing. So, it's about writing to be remembered rather than writing to be liked.”

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Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.”

Art Culture Modern Entertainment Evolve Modern Culture Popular Entertainment

Author:Andrew Hoberek

“One task of literature is to formulate questions and construct counterstatements to the reigning pieties. And even when art is not oppositional, the arts gravitate toward contrariness. Literature is dialogue: responsiveness. Literature might be described as the history of human responsiveness to what is alive and what is moribund as cultures evolve and interact with one another.”

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Book:Susan Sontag: Ansprachen aus Anlass der Verleihung

Source: Susan Sontag: Ansprachen aus Anlass der Verleihung

“It's hard to know what [literature] will end up being timeless and what will be something that doesn't translate into the future, especially with the way we're evolving since our culture is changing so fast.”

Knows Way Ends Hard Culture Literature Evolve Translate Timeless

Author:Rick Riordan

“Evolving Culture, Reality, as we perceive it, is largely shaped by the artifacts, both material and symbolic, of thought, thought that leads to creative manifestation in form and color. With that in mind, it might be suggested that the visual artist, - from commercial designer to fine art painter - has much to do with most things that enter your everyday visuals, and thus form a major portion of one's reality and, certainly, how this culture manifests and evolves.”

“A culture is not an abstract thing. It is a living, evolving process. The aim is to push beyond standard-setting and asserting human rights to make those standards a living reality for people everywhere.”

People Humans Reality Culture Process Rights Standards Aim Human Rights Setting Settings Evolve Abstract Living Reality

Author:Mary Robinson