Nikesh Shukla

“These themes are explored through fantasy figures such as wizards, giants and elves. At the same time, amongst the teachers and pupils…

— Nikesh Shukla

“Respectability politics is the dogged belief that if black people just shape up, dress right, and act right, racists would suddenly have…

— Nikesh Shukla

“I had long since realised that if there was greatness in Britain, then it lay in its everyday citizens, and not in…

— Nikesh Shukla

“To be an immigrant, good or bad, is about straddling two homes, whilst knowing you don't really belong to either.”

— Nikesh Shukla

“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…

— Nikesh Shukla

“Ravi, you big massive racist. Rap is the music of revolution. Rap is the reason we have rights.”

— Nikesh Shukla

“Tell me about Gang Starr,' said Nishant, in an effort to start a conversation I'd be interested in. 'One MC, one DJ...'…

— Nikesh Shukla

“I dodged him for a few months with excuses about not being able to, not having the time to, not being bothered…

— Nikesh Shukla

“I do think it’s interesting that this idea of being a model minority is tied up with essentially being quiet,’ she says.…

— Nikesh Shukla

“Oriental’ has connotations of bamboo and flutes and red sunsets. It should only really be used to describe carpets, as the word…

— Nikesh Shukla

“Everything around me was so starkly white that I began to believe that I would turn white sooner or later. I was…

— Nikesh Shukla

“While 'Rap Trax!' recorded, Neel found some scrap paper and we started writing our first lyrics. Bandying about subject matter and title,…

— Nikesh Shukla

“It’s a tree falling in a forest conundrum: if a white kid raps all the lyrics to ‘Gold Digger’ and there isn’t…

— Nikesh Shukla

“We laughed over our difference then spent years bonding over things that made us the same.”

— Nikesh Shukla

“Integrate well. Move upwards in society. Be praised - until people worry that you're doing too well, and then they remember that…

— Nikesh Shukla

“I was proud to be brown in my own way. Well, I was at school; at school I was brown about the…

— Nikesh Shukla

“Yo, bredren, we be the illest,' went my proclamation. 'We be the dopest,' Anand would follow. 'Our tunes are going to be…

— Nikesh Shukla

“Anand finished up his cola cube transaction. I stepped up and slammed three pound coins on the counter like an oppressed inner-city…

— Nikesh Shukla