Black culture Quote by Bakari Kitwana

The question 'Why white kids love hip-hop?' forces us immediately to deal with the historical weight of race in America. On the surface people…

— Bakari Kitwana

In every interview I've got to explain something about being white but still being into hip hop. It's gone way beyond the musical aspect…

— Brian Austin Green

Hip Hop is the rebirth of civilization. For people who were disconnected from their continent, from their language, from their culture, and from their…

— Jamaal Bowman

Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of Black America…

— Prince

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

Anyone who doesn't think that hip-hop is an intellectual genre, I think that assumption is rooted in racism.

— Doechii

“While the patriarchal boys in hip-hop crew may talk about keeping it real, there has been no musical culture with black men at the…

— bell hooks

After many years of hip-hop as a nation we should have the sophistication to accept that their are distinctions between the corporate manifestation of…

— Bakari Kitwana

You gotta understand a lot of hip-hop kids are going to have the hip-hop mentality. And it's sad because they're not educated enough to…

— Taboo

Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.

— Nikki Giovanni

I agree that all kids of all colors love hip-hop. My point in writing the book was to raise questions about the ways the…

— Bakari Kitwana

We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music,…

— Jason Whitlock