Artist Quote by Afrika Bambaataa

You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It's not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino people and…

— Afrika Bambaataa

Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think.

— Conor Oberst

People underestimate the hip-hop audience and the capacity to understand politics when it's part of music.

— Michael Franti

Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years,

— Geraldo Rivera

I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could…

— Afrika Bambaataa

Hip-Hop is diverse. But the white, capitalist producers and distributors of Hip-Hop are most interested in the Hip-Hip that is misogynist, that is Black-hating,…

— Bell Hooks

Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.

— Michael Eric Dyson

My main concern is that there is a balance in the system and that some art-based hip-hop can get out to the masses, 'cause…

— Black Thought

..And the same rapper who revels in a woman's finely proportioned behind may also speak against racism and on behalf of the poor, even…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds.…

— Afrika Bambaataa

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

— David Byrne

Hip-hop artist, especially the older ones, are the ones who new hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists…

— Nas