“I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.” KindWantedCultureChallengesPhotographContestsStatus QuoPopular Culture Author:Dawoud Bey
“Korean feminism has been swept away by popular culture. It became a sort of old-fashioned trend or a joke.” Has BeensCultureFeminismJokesTrendsOld FashionedKoreanPopular CultureSwept Away Author:Kim Hyesoon
“It seems Korean women are enjoying a passive and fragile status, intoxicated by appearance. Not only feminism, but any serious discourse ends up being swept away by popular culture in Korea.” EndsSeemsCultureEnjoyFeminismSeriousAppearanceFragilePassiveDiscourseKoreaKoreanPopular CultureIntoxicatedSwept Away Author:Kim Hyesoon
“I've never had a stupid student in my life. I never look down on my students. I never thought, "Look at these people." I might argue with them and I think that some of them might have misconceptions - that they might be infected by the intellectual laziness that is the foundation of American popular culture, and of capitalism, if you wish. But part of my job as a teacher is to work with that - against that.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksMightJobsCultureWishTeacherStupidStudentsIntellectualCapitalismFoundationArguingLazinessMisconceptionPopular CultureIntellectual Laziness Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“Women are in many ways second-class citizens in the United States in 2016, because of the way that we're portrayed in popular culture.” WayStatesCultureUnitedClassUnited StatesCitizensPopular CultureSecond Class Citizens Author:Geena Davis
“I myself wouldn't want to read a magazine that focuses solely on a small part of the literary field or of the popular culture - better to smash the borders and look for interesting and important stuff from many different forms of storytelling.” WantLooksImportantDifferentFormCultureStuffInterestingFieldsStorytellingMagazinesBordersPopular CultureSmall Parts Author:Toni Jerrman
“Right now it feels like we're playing a role, like me and a couple of my friends, in where popular culture is going. That's a very rare thing in a person's life to be able to be a part of that. It's a responsibility I take seriously.” FeelsPersonsAbleCultureResponsibilityRolesCoupleRight NowMy FriendsLike MePopular CultureRare Things Author:A-Trak
“I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times.” IdeasCultureSucceedExtremesExplanationTemperOverratedPopular Culture Author:Cass Sunstein
“When I look at certain aspects of popular culture - not everything because I like a lot of things - sometimes my heart breaks a little bit, just a little bit. I begin to ponder what happened to this generation, I don't know.” KnowsLooksHeartLittlesSometimesCertainCultureBitsBreakGenerationsHappenedMy HeartLittle BitAspectPonderingHeart BreakPopular CultureThis Generation Author:Saul Williams
“I'm not interested in popular culture. I hate Quentin Tarantino. I rarely go to movies. I hate rock 'n' roll. I work. I think. I listen to classical music. I brood. I like sports cars.” ThinkingHateCultureSportsRocksCarI HateRock N RollNot InterestedClassical MusicPopular CultureQuentinTarantinoSports Cars Author:James Ellroy
“It is fashionable to scoff at Americans, but they routinely produce most of the important and ground-breaking entertainment in the world. 'Popular culture' is still culture, Shakespeare was once as popular as any of today's icons with the common people.” PeopleWorldStillsImportantTodayCultureCommonProduceTelevisionEntertainmentIconsFashionablePopular Culture Author:Ian O'Doherty
“Popular culture, in all its crudeness, is the output of liberals. It is liberalism that for decades has rejected any protest as 'censorship' or 'McCarthyism.'” CultureDecadesLiberalismProtestCensorshipRejectedPopular CultureOutputMccarthyism Author:Mona Charen
“When I go to China I see many artists whose work reflects on aspects of contemporary popular culture but obviously the history of Western art is not part of their own tradition.” ArtArtistCultureArt IsAspectTraditionWesternChinaContemporaryPopular Culture Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“Like commercial stuff is sort of cheap and disposable and fun and can be sort of interesting in many ways. I love being in popular culture and existing in the evolution of popular culture. But it's so different from painting, and it's so different from that sort of slow, contemplative, gradual process that painting is.” WayDifferentCultureFunStuffProcessLove IsInterestingPaintingEvolutionPopular CultureContemplativeDisposable Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I think I have a pretty good take on popular culture that maybe makes up for the fact that I'm not a sound-bite politician for the nightly news.” ThinkingFactsCultureSoundPoliticianNewsBitesPopular CultureSound Bites Author:Barack Obama
“Now pole dancing is part of popular culture as exercise.” CultureExerciseDancingPopular CulturePole Dancing Author:Robert Englund
“I think, what I want to say is that yes, my ideas have travelled into popular culture they also emerged from popular culture in a way, or from the general public as you put it. But not as a program.” ThinkingWayWantIdeasCultureProgramPopular CultureGeneral Public Author:Judith Butler
“We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.” CulturePopular Culture Author:Ai Weiwei
“I hate these questions - I don't like talking about this stuff [popular culture], because it's so... to me, it's so ordinary.” HateCultureStuffTalkingOrdinaryI HatePopular Culture Author:Edward Snowden
“I remember when Langston Hughes used to write a column in black newspapers around this character Jesse B. Semple. He always used that as a voice, sometimes in comic ways, of having everyday people's voice come through this common folk hero, who was an ordinary working guy. He would talk about anything from police brutality to the Korean War. Those kinds of expression and identification are no longer prevalent in our popular culture.” PeopleWayWritingKindWarSometimesCharacterRememberUsedGuyCultureBlackVoiceCommonExpressionHeroOrdinaryPoliceEverydayFolksNewspapersComicRemember WhenPolice BrutalityBrutalityColumnsKoreanIdentificationPopular CultureKorean WarCommon Folk Author:Danny Glover
“For example, we have developed an artistic and a literary culture. Nevertheless, the ideals of technological culture remain underdeveloped and therefore outside of popular culture and the practical ideals of democracy.” CultureDemocracyExampleIdealsPracticalsArtisticNeverthelessTechnologicalPopular Culture Author:Paul Virilio
“The ideals of technological culture remain underdeveloped and therefore outside of popular culture and the practical ideals of democracy. This is also why society as a whole has no control over technological developments. And this is one of the gravest threats to democracy in the near future. It is, then, imperative to develop a democratic technological culture.” WholeCultureDemocracyDevelopmentIdealsThreatDemocraticPracticalsTechnologicalImperativesPopular CultureTechnological Development Author:Paul Virilio
“I suppose I do the Japanese because I just don't know China. Chinese popular culture has never evoked that instant of, "Whoah! What's that?" that I have with Japanese popular culture.” KnowsCultureChinaChineseInstantPopular Culture Author:William Gibson
“Popular culture does a lot to shape attitudes. You can't compare different communities to each other, but in my lifetime the gay and lesbian community has become much more mainstream in society. I would venture to say it's in part because people began to feel more comfortable when they saw that group on TV.” PeopleFeelsDoeDifferentCultureCommunityAttitudeSawsGroupsTvsGayShapesComfortableLifetimeCompareMainstreamVenturePopular Culture Author:Jay Ruderman
“[Buzzing at the Sill] deals with the margins of America, a lot of parts unseen. Well, parts that are seen and familiar to a lot of the populace, but unseen when it comes to the parameters of what mainstream news and popular culture and Hollywood reflects.” WellsAmericaCultureDealsNewsHollywoodFamiliarMainstreamUnseenMarginsPopular CultureParameters Author:Peter van Agtmael
“I just don't care about popular culture. It looks to me pointless and superficial. If I had free time I'd rather read a 19th century novel.” IfsLooksCareCultureNovelCenturyDon't CareSuperficialPointless19th CenturyPopular CultureFree Time Author:Noam Chomsky
“I'm just so amazed by people who are willing to share things that, in the past, no one would have ever talked about. Folks in popular culture being willing to take on issues, I think that is such a key part of having a culture shift and an institutional shift.” PeopleThinkingPastCultureIssuesShareWillingKeysFolksAmazedPopular Culture Author:Cecile Richards
“The nineties as a pop cultural sphere was a really fertile time for feminism that was grounded and located in popular culture. I'm talking about before the Spice Girls - Sassy Magazine, riot grrrl, the Beastie Boys, Nirvana. You had this alternative culture that was very much speaking up on behalf of women and in favor of women.” CultureGirlBoysFeminismRiotPopular CultureSassySpice Girls Author:Andi Zeisler
“Pretty much up until The West Wing, our leaders had always been portrayed in popular culture as either Machiavellian or dolts. But I thought, "What if we show a group of people who are highly competent, they're going to lose as much as they win, but we're going to understand that they wake up every morning wanting to do good?" That was really the spirit behind The West Wing.” PeopleSpiritCultureWinningLeaderMorningWake UpWhat IfEvery MorningPopular Culture Author:Aaron Sorkin
“I think '60s are appealing to creative people, because it seemed to be a time of endless possibilities, when the boundaries of what could be considered popular culture were being expanded almost by the week. It doesn't feel like that anymore. At times, I wish it were so. Radio is a perfect example; good God, I mean, back then the most interesting songs were also hits, and that's just not true anymore. It hasn't been true in a long time.” PeopleThinkingMeanLongSongCultureWishPerfectInterestingCreativeWeekPossibilityBoundariesMost InterestingCreative PeoplePopular CultureGood God Author:Steven Soderbergh
“I read The Onion, and I've read a lot of interviews that are very direct, often with people who are never direct. Which is interesting. But somehow the A.V.Club part of The Onion, I don't think is telegraphed into the popular culture.” PeopleThinkingCultureInterestingDirectPopular Culture Author:John Flansburgh
“I see myself as a very eclectic person and artist. I use all kinds of sources for the work as maybe some large pieces. Ideas come from all kinds of areas; literature, popular culture, dreams, you name it.” KindDreamArtistCultureLiteratureAll KindsPopular CultureEclectic Author:Michael C. McMillen
“Often, we separate intellectual discourse from emotional reaction. But I take such genuine pleasure in things that are intellectually well architected. It's definitely an integrated experience for me. Much more than any kind of cheap, emotional pulls that you get in popular culture, when I read a sentence and it's beautifully written, it can bring me to tears.” KindCulturePleasureTearsEmotionalIntellectualIntegratedPopular Culture Author:Francoise Mouly
“I always want to be doing both to travel as a teacher and lecturer, and to be a musician. I think in this generation institutionalizing the art form and spreading it to the younger generation through education is really important for all artists to have some hand in. Right now in popular culture and the mainstream, it's not a big part at all. I think education by young artists talking to young people, not just older people talking to young people, it gives an experience never felt before. I think over the years it will do a lot for the music.” PeopleThinkingGivingArtImportantArtistCultureTeacherMusicianPopular CultureYounger GenerationPeople Talking Author:Jonathan Batiste
“I think that voodoo as a spiritual tradition has been demonized for so long in popular culture. I wanted to write against that and write a character who practiced that spiritual tradition who was not evil and intent on creating zombies or causing pain through voodoo dolls or whatever.” ThinkingWritingLongCharacterPainSpiritualCultureEvilTraditionZombiePopular CultureVoodoo Author:Jesmyn Ward
“A visionary is someone who sees the future with both insight and foresight: Insight into the deeper causes and meaning of events in the world, and foresight, or an intuitive grasp of the big picture, such as the trajectory of politics and popular culture.” WorldCultureInsightForesightBig PicturePopular Culture Author:Corinne McLaughlin
“While we have a very strong popular culture, the roots of American culture are very shallow, and we put emphasis on how a movie does as far as the box office goes. Many years ago, it would have been vulgar to print box - office grosses in the paper. Now The New York Times does it, and it's the big story for people interested in arts and entertainment on Monday. Which is why emphasis has shifted away from filmmakers and fallen on movie stars and business people.” PeopleArtCultureStrongOfficeFallenFilmmakerPrintVery StrongShallowVulgarMondayMovie StarAmerican CulturePopular Culture Author:Willem Dafoe
“If we're having a glitzy over-the-top moment, fashion is very glitzy and over-the-top, you know, over-the-top. If we're having a moment where things are, you know, we're in a recession, fashion becomes quiet. So, in terms of popular culture, fashion and especially women's fashion is incredibly interesting, aside from satisfying just a particular need to create and arrange things in a way that one sees as beautiful. And so, in a certain way, it's fulfilling. In another way, it's very fleeting because it doesn't last very long. You know, a beautiful moment in fashion goes away very quickly.” LongMomentsBeautifulCultureTermInterestingFashionQuietFulfillingPopular Culture Author:Tom Ford
“I feel a disparity between my life in India within the home and my life outside the home - my life within public and private space. In terms of here and there, there were some differences, but New York and India were very different when I was growing up in the '80s. Definitely in terms of the visual and popular culture I encountered within my home - that was very different from the complete lack of representation I saw of South Asian culture outside of that space.” DifferentHomeCultureTermGrowing UpRepresentationPopular Culture Author:Chitra Ganesh
“A belief in God may not be fully within me anymore, but there's still a belief in belief. The high drama and power of the Church has stayed with me. As a child in church, I saw grown men at the altar crying out for God's mercy. And the idea of someone doing that has become a joke in the popular culture, but when you are there and you see it, you experience - for a moment - an incredibly raw, honest, strange insight into what it means to be a human being. Those experiences don't leave you. Whatever you think of them, they are powerful experiences.” ThinkingMenMeanChildrenMomentsCultureBeliefChurchPowerfulHonestCryStrangeDramaJokesMercyInsightPopular CultureBelief In God Author:Ayana Mathis
“Southern food that appears in contemporary popular culture is so exaggerated that it's hardly recognizable to most Southerners. This enriching of Southern food - fatter, richer, more over the top - is what we typically see on TV, in Hollywood films, and in Southern-style or country-themed chains like Cracker Barrel. Southern food becomes a caricature, like characters and props in a reality TV show.” CharacterRealityFilmCultureSouthernPopular CultureSoutherner Author:Marcie Cohen Ferris
“Most Southerners recognize when a story about their own experience feels off-kilter or offensive. But Southerners are also fascinated by the way their region is presented in popular culture. It is exciting to see how filmmakers take great care to present worlds in which race, region, and food are deeply intertwined.” WorldCareCultureExcitingFilmmakerOffensivePopular CultureSoutherner Author:Marcie Cohen Ferris
“It's an enormous opportunity to get a message out to people who may be less likely to read and listen to CDs - to people who would otherwise not be exposed to the most important teachings on the planet. These teachings are about how can we get along and survive as a people - how we can love each other, be kind and decent, serve each other, and be compassionate. Unfortunately, there aren't many messages like that in the popular culture.” PeopleKindImportantCultureOpportunityTeachingDecentBe KindCompassionatePopular Culture Author:Wayne Dyer
“There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy surface of popular culture. But these days, pop culture seems to have gotten fuzzier and fuzzier; notoriety comes and goes in the snap of a finger.” MindSeemsCultureFingersTrackPopsSurfaceThese DaysGiantsBrushesPop CultureComes And GoesSnapsPopular CultureFuzzyNotoriety Author:Susan Orlean
“Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.” CultureLeaderRocksRootsFeministAfrican AmericanRock N RollPopular Culture Author:Camille Paglia
“I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting.” ThinkingWellsHumanityCultureFightingLanguageStudyMediaProfessorsPopular CultureEvangelistsMedia Studies Author:Camille Paglia
“Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.” CultureSocialCausesReflectionPopsSocial ChangePop CulturePopular Culture Author:John Podhoretz
“People constantly make pop-culture references. That's why it's called popular culture, because people are aware of it and reference it constantly.” PeopleCulturePopsPop CulturePopular Culture Author:Seth Rogen
“The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism.” PeopleRealRealityTodayFormCultureInformationOrdinaryJournalismContemptLowestGarbagePopular CultureMisinformationCommon Culture Author:Carl Bernstein