My family was very encouraging, and both of my…

I come from probably many generations of singers because my grandmother had a really incredible voice and sang in church. And my mother had…

— Patty Griffin

My great-grandparents have some beautiful sculptures which have come down the generations. They are priceless and whenever I look at them, I am inspired.

— Ananya Birla

Black movies don't have real names, they have names like Barbershop. That's not a name, that's just a location.

— Chris Rock

Bernie Sanders has done a great job of, social media black kids know about him. Young black people progressives know about him. Through barbershops…

— Killer Mike

I had been a huge fan of the Barbershop films and was really excited they're finally doing the female version.

— Mena Suvari

The dream is not a map. A poem is not the territory. The dreamer reclines in a barbershop carpeted with Afro turf. In the…

— Harryette Mullen

For me, it's all about the haircut. I don't have a lot of hair to style, so I keep it nice and fresh and…

— Vinny Guadagnino

There's things people say in the barbershop they won't even say in their own living room, because it's just one of those zones where…

— Ice Cube

In the barbershop, there's democracy. You're a professor; you're an engineer; you're a garbage man, have at it. You got something to say, get…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Wait, hold on here. Is this a barbershop? Is this a barbershop? If we can't talk straight in a barbershop, then where can we…

— Cedric The Entertainer

It's unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what's disrupted is an ordinary routine. When I began this poem, I was…

— Mark Doty

Barbershop conversations are irrefutable proof that heads exist for the sake of hair.

— Karl Kraus

I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who…

— Pablo Picasso

He wandered into the Newsroom and asked for a job the same way he’d walk into a barbershop and ask for a haircut, and…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I worked in a barbershop. I used to make the waves in the brother's hair, you know? Like, Nat King Cole, Sugar Ray Robinson.

— George Clinton