Cultural outsider Quotes

I have a lot of fans who are people of color. I think, if nothing else, I kind of understand that sense of being on the outside looking in, culturally.

Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.

Whenever I'm around Spanish people, I'm kind of like a fly on the wall.

The artist is still a little like the old court jester. He's supposed to speak his vicious paradoxes with some sense in them, but he isn't part of whatever the fabric is that makes a nation.

The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.

When you're an outsider and going into a culture like America, it's easier to stay away from any cliches because you're not really aware of what they are.

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

There is an element in some of my work that has to do with being an outsider, feeling like not part of the dominant culture.

To me, these people were as exotic as animals in a zoo. I'd never seen anything like them. I wasn't sure whether I wanted to be one of them or simply live among them taking notes and photographs.

We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have married into the family, and during my childhood, we were the only members living outside of Egypt. So between my father's prestige as the eldest son and my own exotic pedigree, I basked in the spotlight.

He seems like an American at a carnival ball. He doesn't know the tune. He doesn't understand the lyrics, he doesn't have rhythm, he doesn't know how to dance, and he came without a costume.