I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.

People in the U.S. are more reserved, whereas in Naples they'll hit each other and then kiss each other a second after.

In the beginning, when I was doing my shows, I was incorporating a lot of Spanish, just trying to be a Latino comic instead of just a comic. Now I try to make the show as broad as possible... I don't...

I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.

It's a responsibility for me, to not just be good, but to give my best and to be the best I can every weekend, to prove that African goalkeepers can establish themselves in the Premier League.

Multicultural societies are multi-conflict societies.

Italy during Shakespeare's time had citizens of all cultures and colors. To pretend that it did not is ignorance. And I don't waste my time on ignorance.

The 'low' quality of many American films, and of much American popular culture, induces many art lovers to support cultural protectionism. Few people wish to see the cultural diversity of the world...

When I first came out to L.A., Hollywood's idea of a Latina was Mexican. It was almost like they had never seen or heard of an Afro-Latina before.

At times I put in Meek Mill and listen to some R&B, some Merengue, Dominican music. I really listen to pretty much everything.

Although I'm aware of how under-represented we are, I sometimes forget how desperately Arabs who aren't in the film business wish for better stories about us.

To the Tamil media, I have mostly interacted in English since I am not fluent in Tamil.

I think it's a very powerful notion, the notion that our personal views, although closely held, are not necessarily right. That part of what is noble is making sure there are checks and balances and a...

I grew up a little bit in Germany and then in Switzerland, then in France, the United States and in England, and so it is weird.

'The Sopranos' was a very East Coast show; 'Heroes' is more organically global.

By the time we're adults, our ideas have solidified. So I wanted to write for a younger audience, who would perhaps love heroes from other cultures.

Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

I studied at Howard. I studied at Oxford.

I love classical music, but I hated classical guitar. But I like flamenco, because there was something else there going on. It wasn't just the notes being thrown at you. And there were certain kinds...

As an actor I have no hang-ups whatsoever about cinema. It can be mainstream, art, regional or national.

I grew up partially with classical music but listened to a lot of rock when I was young - I like acoustic, and folk from Mali and Armenia and Turkey.

When I was a girl, there wasn't anything in Spanish in the movies until you saw it on DVD.

I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.

It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.

My thing is to get people out of the stigma of what a reggae artist should be like.

Well, we're a Hindi speaking Marwari family, but everybody in my family understands Telugu and talks about Telugu films all the time.

I wouldn't say I am practicing Muslim - I don't go to the mosque or anything, but it's part of my identity.

I think I'm ridiculously fortunate. I consider myself a Nigerian - that's home; my sensibility is Nigerian. But I like America, and I like that I can spend time in America.

To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.

I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.