American music culture is black culture.

This is more in regards to celebrities. What we've got to understand is that we are the influencers of the hip-hop culture, the black…

— Demetrius Shipp, Jr

I'm admitting that I don't know that to be true, but it does sound pretty good. So a big part of my childhood was…

— Moshe Kasher

Black culture is pop culture, Black History Month is every month, and that's something they want us to forget. What better way to remember…

— Goldlink

I was in Paris last year, where there's a great appreciation of many different aspects of African culture and of black culture. The music...…

— Lenny Kravitz

People ask me why my figures have to be so black. There are a lot of reasons. First, the blackness is a rhetorical device.…

— Kerry James Marshall

We're a staple in the American music culture. Like us or not, we're here to stay.

— Jonathan Cain

What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we loved black culture?

— Amandla Stenberg

In times of totalitarian or autocratic rule, music (indeed culture in general) is often the only avenue of independent thought. It is the only…

— Daniel Barenboim

You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.

— Robert Duvall

When you see a culture where the intellectual architects of the invasion are not shamed for their behavior but rewarded within the mainstream media…

— John Cusack

“While the patriarchal boys in hip-hop crew may talk about keeping it real, there has been no musical culture with black men at the…

— bell hooks

I was a mixed black girl existing in a westernized Hawaiian culture where petite Asian women were the ideal, in a white culture where…

— Janet Mock

We do not have an American culture. We have a white American culture and a black American culture. So when those two groups try…

— Michael Emerson

I love everything black, because black is cool. When something crosses over, people are like, "Oh, this is a crossover." First of all, there…

— Brett Ratner

I did not disregard my culture, if I did, it was the white American culture, and I accepted my true culture, when I accepted…

— Muhammad Ali