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The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy.

I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.

We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.

You have to work at creating your own culture.

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

You have to be respectful of pop culture, because people interpret it in the way they want.

I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.

It's difficult sometimes when you have somebody who is of a different culture trying to make light of something that is maybe not quite something that they understand.

Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.