Culture Quote by Archie Shepp

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

— Maya Angelou

It's very hard to grow up in the African American church and for music to not be in your veins. It's just part of…

— Kirk Franklin

American music culture is black culture.

— Yelawolf

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music,…

— Samuel George Morton

I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called negro melodies. This must be the…

— Antonin Dvorak

Even though it's called Music Of Black Origin, it's not just music for black people. Music is for everybody. I think it's good that…

— Alesha Dixon

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

— Johnny Otis

Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.

— Archie Shepp

I think it's always been especially hard for black people to let go of musicians who do heinous things because music is such an…

— Amanda Seales

African-American music tends to have, at the very least, a glimmer of hope to it - sometimes full-fledged hope.

— Jordan Peele

Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense.

— Cornel West

The art, the greatness of the music, the experience of the music is what I'm about. I think most African artists have destroyed their…

— Fela Kuti