Quotes about "Social Media & Online Culture"

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.' ”

Medicine has an immediate impact, the ability to do good. Writing is such a solitary activity. ”

I'm not a propaganda machine. I tell things how I see them. When I say, for example, that corruption is not the only thing the West should think about when they think about Nigeria, I'm not saying it doesn't exist but that people have the complete wrong focus. There's music, there's art, there's culture. ”

The denial with which many African leaders and communities greeted the appearance of HIV and AIDS across the continent in the 1990s is now considered a tragic mistake rather than a purposeful pushback against lingering colonial prejudice. ”

I think the fact that we don't really... that the world really doesn't acknowledge how bad and how detrimental colonialism was; that people don't really try to explore it, you know, in popular media and news articles; that... that it's just kind of glossed over as this thing. ”

Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact. ”

It's nice to know there are some things in early 21st-century post-industrial culture that don't change very fast. I am one of those. ”

I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother. ”

I respect the media, and in return, they respect my privacy. ”

Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics. ”