Hip Quotes
797 Hip quotes by 503 unique authors
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Being a part of SKECHERS is exciting. It is such a hip company with a great attitude and image.
— Carrie Underwood
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Coming from a little suburban town, I wasn't a hip city kid. I was quite the opposite, really. Songs like 'Saturday's Kids' rang a bell…
— Paul Weller
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Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.
— Saul Williams
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What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.
— Saul Williams
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I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the 'black people's CNN.' Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It's biased,…
— Saul Williams
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I did have reconstructive plastic surgery and a tummy tuck. And from hip to hip, there's a very big scar. It looks better than it…
— Carnie Wilson
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The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.
— Amy Winehouse
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Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music.
— will.i.am
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Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gatekeepers of what people think hip-hop is, but they actually…
— will.i.am
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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
— Al Yankovic
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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
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Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.
— Michael Eric Dyson
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Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-hop culture. Moreover, young black entrepreneurs like Sean 'P. Diddy'…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to marginal…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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If you take a guy like a Barack Obama, who's raised millions of dollars from the most donors in the history of this nation, it…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.
— Emmanuel Jal
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Google is in a position where it doesn't even have to strive to become a hip, conscious choice. Brands are temporary fads. Functionality is forever.…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters,…
— Margaret Atwood
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Hip," I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell's---my mouth foaming, all I could think about were insects,…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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The enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of capitalist is not communist, the enemy of homosexual is not heterosexual, the enemy…
— Tom Robbins
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..And the same rapper who revels in a woman's finely proportioned behind may also speak against racism and on behalf of the poor, even as…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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He was slumped over, blood trickling from the side of his mouth. I shook his furry hip, thinking, No! Even if you are half barnyard…
— Rick Riordan
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I carried [Rudy] softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder [at comforting]. I watched the contents of his soul for a…
— Markus Zusak
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The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow improper; not morally, aesthetically.
— Truman Capote
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