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"That ritual and ceremony are very important parts of being human. Absolutely, and I think they express in a visual, dramatic, metaphorical form much of what it is to be alive."
"It's my responsibility to let the world know China's tradition and past, and to give the splendor of China a new expression."
"Thank you for joining us, or as we say in Kenya, karibu."
"Southeast Asian dance has its own complicated footwork and expressive gestures and facial expressions."
"Nigerians are painting a picture of progress one vibrant color at a time."
"Bento boxes, there's so much more than just food; it's artistry, personality, and love."
"I think it takes a lot of strength to wear it."
"Being able to share my love for food and Filipino culture here during my trip in Manila has been nothing but an incredible experience."
"This might be the most American thing I've ever seen, and it's not even American food."
"This intimate style of event spawned another reputable form of expression and has given us some of the best moments in the MC battle culture to date."
"May the best man or woman win as the Chinese would say, that a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend."
"Celtic and Liverpool fans may start a riot over who can sing You'll Never Walk Alone."
"The true empowerment of this song: hands on my knees shaking on my thought post me a pic final make me a prophet."
"You gotta learn to dance and move with the Rhythm, and that's in the soul."
"Waruna is a powerful tool to understand who we are. Their music is about who we are today."
"Language is the carrying case of the heart of a people."
"Asian people have been quiet. But I think it's a different time now."
"We wanted to allow for artists to be as creative as they can be."
"Music is a very powerful tool to interpret resistance and the hope that we all share."
"It's a vibe, and I didn't want to say that because, you know, it gets overused, but this made me feel a way."
"All of them attempt to represent the historically misrepresented."
"References, parodies, homage, sampling, all of these things are done to show respect."
"Now is the time for people to come together, not in a hippie way, but in a united way with art."
"Islamic art always tries to look as beautiful as it can."
"They say oi. He says the hereness." - Rabbi Pari Berkowitz
"Let the weirdness flourish, let the all the different ways members of the human family can be different, let's see them all."
"Afrofuturism is a tangible, visual representation of all the infinite possibilities that could be."
"Hip-hop is more than just music, it's a culture, a language, a way of understanding each other."
"When you're living that life and somebody's spitting that life, you soak it up like a beach towel."
"Homoeroticism is present deep in all kinds of black culture."
"Next year in Jerusalem, next year in Jerusalem, next year the promised land, next year will be better."
"Music is like the gaming industry, it's all art."
"Do I think music has lost the ability to be subversive? No, absolutely not."
"In terms of Hindus... his expression in clear American terms...valid foundations for effective public policy."
"I want to see nations, yeah! GT IC talking online, it happening no more son!"
"Their hair was well groomed and their faces and perhaps bodies well Shone and plucked and even tattooed with complex designs."
"All you need is one opportunity to prove yourself to somebody so they can give you a chance of success."
"Humans already seem to have a bias towards authenticity from other humans, which we express culturally and commercially. And I hope that we keep that up, because I think that's a good thing."
"That's like Scottish, offer me kisses, the extra, my choice, that's your dwarf foots, oh, okay, well, hold on there you go, turn the door."
"It's just something so they might as well be aliens."
"Cardi got the juice, man, and that's just the tea."
"Our music, our food, our dress, our speech, our innovations."
"There's Something Free and like sexy about Florida and like the sun you know like tan lines and everyone's just like got barely any clothes on we're all running around screaming profanities that the world probably wouldn't be ready for."
"Whether we are together or apart, music is a language that shrinks the distances in between us and gives voice to the experiences we share as Canadians."
"This is artistry on steroids, bro. Like, that is crazy how they're able to link the cultural references in the past and in their presence into their lives."
"The granite Jacquer and Jared and Shakiri celebrated their vital goals by performing The double-handed Eagle gesture."
"This album is the results of that healing process, and it's like... like I'm not telling you not to interpret the album in whatever way works best for you, but I don't think you can talk about this album in its true form if you are not a black man."
"Rock and roll is constantly drifting... Let's reclaim this feeling that we need to express."
"The aesthetic ideal takes shape in different domains of human culture."
"It feels like everyone can be ghetto and black besides ghetto and black people."
"They've got some sort of a grudge to settle here, maybe I'm gonna call that in America we call it beef."
"There's never been a better time to be an artist."
"The outfits are as much a part of that as the decoration of your Camp."
"Hashtag black food energies hashtag everything."
"All y'all haters, we got trolls, close your eyes picture me rollin'."
"Have a blessed day, Shalom, and happy New Year."
"My friends immediately were like, 'Oh,' which is black for 'I'm about to hurt your feelings, bro.'"
"Vaporwave came out of this generation's desire to express their hopelessness."
"I'm black. You cut me open, I am the blackest black person on the planet."
"Have a great weekend, I love you, stay black, Uncle Joey always loves you."
"The art they created is quintessentially American."
"It's woked. It's not about... it's about friendship."
"Don't stop grinding, but also don't listen to anybody if there's a goal that you want to reach just do it."
"This is the perfect example of singing in your language and being comfortable."
"Word of mouth everybody know about it, I just want you for dig fine boom."
"The ribbons are white and blue they've gone ahead and won it in the tie-dye shirt as well which is just for the culture."
"You ain't never seen a Korean get cussed out."
"A nervious happiness that is overflowing from his heart. In Korean that word is goo-geul, so he was feeling very 'goo-geul goo-geul' (sounds like 'Google'). A Korean Joke."
"International Football is now the purest expression of the beautiful game."
"The erotic papyrus is one part erotic and one part satiric."
"Auna bushi about sugar shanty Tutera songs are good too heavy into a platonic they're gonna cost should Joe Panora matter ticket Akbar Corona - a solid."
"We as a people, we have a very tasman to gold, you know what I mean?"
"Black people have always imagined something different, taking the nerve to create it."
"Salam do Nutini, a bit order to claim, to kata can imagine."
"2019 has been an incredible year in music, diverse and inspiring voices have emerged, new and sometimes challenging ideas and points of view have been expressed, truly heard and acknowledged for the very first time." - Harvey Mason Jr.
"That's not cancel culture, that is cultural freedom and freedom of speech."
"What Malcolm wrote was literally the opus of Shakespearean black feelings."
"Kudos to the tissue people. It's freaking American flag tissue box."
"I'm crossover and I'm not gonna let nobody think just because I'm black and I wear afro and that I wear things that Afrocentric and I support black businesses that other people can't relate to me."
"You want to get woke, you're gonna go broke."
"Ain't nobody do that like that, bro, and I mean for this. See, this is a reality platform, y'all don't realize that, no, it's real because this."
"120 million naira cash is not beans. It's a lot of money."
"I promise y'all gonna see in a couple months her hair going to be natural... Candace in a fro, oh hell yeah I'm here for it."
"This is not a Mexican family exclusive. This is a universal language of a dad."
"You just insulted him, the little Texas thing you got on your hand."
"Art is Art. Somebody wants to put in whatever it is that they want in their show, they have full right to do it."
"Black don't crack... and we gonna keep up the skincare routine."
"Armies used to have drummers like, hello, yes, we are here to slaughter each other, but before that, my boy Nathaniel's gonna drop a sick-ass beat and show them how it's done. Nate, I love Irish slang. Like, it's the most creative craft ever."
"It's got hair on its back tutorial, there we go, yeah baby. I believe the term is African-American."
"A war is not the best time for literature but it is very important for literature to keep going for new works to be written, for new songs to be written because it's one of the ways to describe and to bear witness to our time, to what is happening."
"In the Internet age, we're getting more diversity of expression."
"You can take the boy out of Texas, but you can't take Texas out of the boy."
"Lighting sets mood and evokes culture."
"I am perfectly made. I can wax eloquent on complex legal issues in English while also belting Guayaquil de mis amores in Spanish."
"A real woman don't want no whining man." - That's right.
"Emotional damage in Chinese accent: 'This game is too hard for me, it gives me too much emotional damage.'"
"Hula is the telling of a story with your hands; it's about the Aina and the land."
"Black people can turn anything into a negro spiritual."
"Science fiction has always been a vital avenue for cultural storytelling..."
"Art overall, the culture overall, is always speaking to us about its moment in the moment that we're living in."
"Spooky outside, the rappers are coming outside, man."
"At Cannibal Club, we celebrate artistic excellence as the natural and inevitable expression of the unbridled human spirit."
"This is the most American thing you can do evidently."
"My cripping is in my veins, my scars, my Chucks, and in my lyrics."
"There is literally nothing more American than dressing up like a goddamn Raytheon drone."
"Hip-hop is like boxing, you know, it has to be competitive to a certain degree because of the nature of it."
"You might have heard how whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting."
"A song of Union, of breaking down barriers," the Bard sings.
"We're always gonna have the space to laugh and find joy."
"Because it is true that many species be complex rich languages but only we write poetry and compose music."
"The darker the berry, the sweeter the juice, the darker the flesh, the deeper the roots."
"It's October dawg, it's a bit spooked overseas, it's spooky season vibes all around."
"Damn, boy, that boy kicked up a million rocks! I'm legally blind!"
"Chinese food so good, make you want to slap out!"
"Regardless of your denomination, religion, or faith, we bring you greetings this Friday before the 25th of December and to anyone who doesn't mind happy bloody Christmasy Christmas indeed."
"The pedagogical experience here becomes an invitation to make visible the languages, dreams, values, and encounters that constitute the lives of those whose histories are often actively silenced."
"I took the inquiry and Phil knew in Kihara cassock a kazoo kazoo pia kamut a helluva long time in cazuca."
"It's not a regular [ __ ] like it's like that's just how New York is."
"There's room for black stories. Just do them. Oh my gosh."
"It's not about religion. It's about identity."
"Hairstyles can convey information about who we are and the society that we come from."
"What these hairstyles can tell us about who these people were, how they thought of themselves, and what their hair was meant to convey to their contemporaries."
"Why do I wear jewelry? I ain't a bad I like it I used to like the way it look when other it looked real good up against Blackness."
"When black people say 'yo talk your [__],' that means rant, that means vent."
"I'm here now, and inshallah, I want to be here again."
"Yes, there's an expression in Turkey that says I eat the whites of your eyes. It means I love you so much."
"When you see a gorgeous hijab, I swear to God it just makes you want to wear even more."
"As a black person, what's more satisfying? Not having to restrict your music taste because of outside bigoted opinion, using AAE freely, being understood, and actually vibing."
"If you're black and occasionally you're making like whatever [ __ ] crackers like you're hanging out with your mates or whatever and you make like jokes and like I don't [ __ ] care about that."
"All that to also say Hozier I love you Hozier if you wanted to release an entire album of just you singing Irish folk songs I would buy it and I would push it and I would get it tattooed on my entire body and also bring back Bluegrass 2023."
"The thing about the shanty song is that it's got a chorus that, well, soon made the weather man come to bring us sugar and tea and ramen."
"An example of some properly filthy shanty work."
"Dance is cool, but rapping is cooler, hip-hop."
"Music isn't confined to the stage, you know, it's anywhere."
"Because it's our language, it's our gestures, it's our vibes, it's how we communicate."
"I feel like you have to roll the r's. I don't know how to roll my rs. I feel like it's super fancy, super sexy, just like tacos."
"Pineapples became a symbol of hospitality... expressing the warmest possible greeting."
"This is about as dope as the dopest, you told 'em, Tan Man."
"The drums and the chanting are louder this time."
"This album probably really spoke to how a kid from L.A. felt around that time."
"We reveled in it, real explosion of creativity, a lot of fun."
"Only in America. Yeah, I don't believe what I just saw."
"If that is not a gangster, I don't know what it is."
"Some 44,000 years ago, someone crouched in a cave crushed a chunk of ironstone hematite into a pigment and proceeded to paint a rich scene onto the limestone walls."
"It takes different strokes to move the world."
"This is the time for artists, for songwriters, for poets, and for filmmakers to show the world what it should be, what it could be."
"Hip-hop is so much more than just liking a [ __ ] boom bad beep."
"Namaste, the light in me recognizes, honors, and loves the light in you."
"Nobody's saying, 'Hey, that's offensive'... that's how Asian people talk."
"Yeah, oh yeah, this is what this is what Rebellion looks like."
"Boss Man, we in the Trap with it, ah 85 South show."
"Merch is the natural culmination of consumption as an expression of identity."
"If you love your people, you gotta be crazy."
"These meals are made with a lot of pride, a lot of love."
"You know what I mean? They come from Memphis like a [__], Memphis is an active ass city in regards to, you know, it kind of gives you the aura of Memphis by just understanding crunk, get buck, that energy type music anyway."
"It's just a way of expression, a way of life."
"At the end of the day, if you're looking in the mirror as a white dude with dreads, you're like, 'Damn, I'm a bad [__].'"
"No cap, you know what I'm saying? You go to Chicago, you'll be like, 'Give me my heat.' Yeah, yeah."
"This red wine here blood is touching, you understand? I'm gonna have to tell the people, I mean, you have to invest in a bottle of red wine blood, you get me?"
"Hot rodding is one of the purest American arts."
"We're showing these chavalones and new generations that to express yourself authentically is a pathway to freedom and to uplifting our rasa."
"Krebs took great enjoyment in the fact that he could translate the phrase kiss my into 40 different languages."
"Being loud in itself is not like a bad thing inherently, it's just something that we do in our culture."
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"Rock music is not always about wild abandon."
"We already got you know we already black don't crack but this adds electrons to your cells to your skin cells and [ __ ] this actually helps to reduce aging."
"A man's need for revenge can sustain him more than the milk of a horse."
"You gotta check yourself before you mess yourself."
"Raging party at the end of the world, am I right?"
"The vowels are dots on the bottom of the letters which is you might not know but E Moscow thank you so very very much clock summer to you which means like happy holiday."
"And what does a pop star or a rock star do a rock star in some way even if only with body language articulates the strangeness of that experience we're going through and gives us a sense that we are not alone."
"If you want to win in Texas, be a booger-eater man. Get that booger on your lip and suck it down!"
"I really wanted to capture my whole culture in it as well."
"Hip-hop is just a description of the life that's already going down."
"It's legit. That's a very Texas belt. Don't mess with Tesla."
"The cars themselves were expressions of their owners' identities, but perhaps even more remarkably, they were cars with their own identities."
"One thing a southern boy will never say is 'I don't think duct tape will fix it.'"
"Beauty isn't a single look but rather the elusive quality."
"Hip-hop is about music, it's about fashion, it's about art, it's about entertainment. Colorful and exciting, it's telling a story, and it's fabulous. It's ghetto fabulous."
"Great Pretender is a work of art plain and simple."
"I like rap, I like gangster rap, I like real people telling real stories."
"Make music about the culture you want to see."
"I wanted to create a collection where I could wear my identity and be unapologetically proud of Who I am and I hope that by wearing this you could also feel the same."
"It never crossed my mind to not try to use the arts to kind of tell the truth about what's going on."
"That feeling is heaven sent, it's love for the game and the desire to compete, it's history, it's passionate cultures, trash talk."
"Storytelling through art is truly a medium that transcends time."
"Hey, people like me and Queen, they rhyme, we don't go nowhere like this, do you understand me?"
"African culture was primarily based on their art."
"Ebonics is not broken English, it is African tongue without the African vocabulary."
"Music is transcended, my desire for people to listen to me. Now, I'm all about people knowing what my culture is like, what my language is like, what my people dress like, how my people talk like. That's afrobeats to me."
"Big D energy doesn't mean that you have a massive member, a big schlong. BD energy comes from consecutive five-star Google review ratings."
"Can you imagine like a Korean father saying hey guys when you guys fight like that it hurts my feelings."
"I feel like I'm gonna do a little electric slide, cupid shuffle, wobble at the barbecue."
"It's all good as they say, get in the hood right."
"Blessings, Shalom, we'll see you soon and of course we'll soon see Zion, shalawam brothers and sisters."
"Songs are meant to be sang, and they're meant to be shared."
"I think it's far time that we allow the fullness of black expression."
"We don't fight, we don't argue, we just hit that [ __ ]."
"Hold this and that is a classic from Angelic."
"It's so interesting when people are able to tell stories like that."