Generations Quote by Archie Shepp

Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.

— Archie Shepp

In a country that was still racially segregated and prejudiced, music was among the first domains in which African-Americans thrived alongside whites.

— Daniel Levitin

White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop…

— Narada Michael Walden

I grew up in a largely black community during the '70s and '80s that scoffed at 'white' music. That music - folk, rock, some…

— Hilton Als

By some estimates, 80% of rap music is bought by white youth. And this makes for another irony. The blooming of white alienation has…

— Shelby Steele

I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew…

— G-Eazy

I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. That's not what I grew…

— G-Eazy

Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.

— Johnny Otis

I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.

— William Christopher Handy

Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.

— Alexis Korner

I didnt grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, Ive never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.

— G-Eazy

I'm glad that young black people are successful with the music. I'm not a hater.

— DMX