Quotes on Common Culture

Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.

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.

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.