“We'd taken up our positions on the benches between the school hall and a newly-installed outdoor basketball court. Being hip-hoppers, we were obliged to be obsessed with basketball. None of us had a ball.” — Nikesh Shukla Copy Share Image
“These themes are explored through fantasy figures such as wizards, giants and elves. At the same time, amongst the teachers and pupils at Hogwarts,… — Nikesh Shukla Copy Share Image
“Respectability politics is the dogged belief that if black people just shape up, dress right, and act right, racists would suddenly have a dramatic… — Nikesh Shukla Copy Share Image
“I had long since realised that if there was greatness in Britain, then it lay in its everyday citizens, and not in its institutions.” — Nikesh Shukla Copy Share Image
“To be an immigrant, good or bad, is about straddling two homes, whilst knowing you don't really belong to either.” — Nikesh Shukla Copy Share Image
“We'd taken up our positions on the benches between the school hall and a newly-installed outdoor basketball court. Being hip-hoppers, we were obliged to… — Nikesh Shukla Copy Share Image
“Ravi, you big massive racist. Rap is the music of revolution. Rap is the reason we have rights.” — Nikesh Shukla Copy Share Image
“Tell me about Gang Starr,' said Nishant, in an effort to start a conversation I'd be interested in. 'One MC, one DJ...' 'Classic combo,'… — Nikesh Shukla Copy Share Image
“I dodged him for a few months with excuses about not being able to, not having the time to, not being bothered to tape… — Nikesh Shukla Copy Share Image
“I do think it’s interesting that this idea of being a model minority is tied up with essentially being quiet,’ she says. ‘Just sitting… — Nikesh Shukla Copy Share Image
“Oriental’ has connotations of bamboo and flutes and red sunsets. It should only really be used to describe carpets, as the word has an… — Nikesh Shukla Copy Share Image
“Everything around me was so starkly white that I began to believe that I would turn white sooner or later. I was quietly being… — Nikesh Shukla Copy Share Image
“While 'Rap Trax!' recorded, Neel found some scrap paper and we started writing our first lyrics. Bandying about subject matter and title, we got… — Nikesh Shukla Copy Share Image
“It’s a tree falling in a forest conundrum: if a white kid raps all the lyrics to ‘Gold Digger’ and there isn’t a black… — Nikesh Shukla Copy Share Image
“We laughed over our difference then spent years bonding over things that made us the same.” — Nikesh Shukla Copy Share Image
“Integrate well. Move upwards in society. Be praised - until people worry that you're doing too well, and then they remember that you're foreign.” — Nikesh Shukla Copy Share Image
