Black Quote by Bell Hooks

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

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

I think hip-hop is no more misogynistic than America is as a society. I just think hip-hop is a lot more brash, a lot…

— Talib Kweli

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

— David Byrne

I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as…

— Quincy Jones

If the society that we're talking about is a society that starts wars all over the world, degrades indigenous cultures, is misogynistic in itself,…

— KRS-One

When you see the misogyny of hip-hop, it's so horrible, it's so putrid, it's so, you know, odious, that we know, we smell, we…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Socially, hip-hop has done more for racial camaraderie in this country than any one thing. 'Cause guys like me, my kids - everyone under…

— Michael Rapaport

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

— Doechii

The materialism, the brashness, the misogyny - everything in hip-hop is amplified. Misogyny is a good example of something that is completely amplified in…

— Talib Kweli

Hip-hop basically controls the world through fashion, through music, through language, through culture. It's basically running the world, no matter what anyone wants to…

— Prodigy

It's a slippery slope when you make the argument that hip hop is only a black person's art. Certainly, its origins are in that…

— Dave Itzkoff