Hops Quotes
467 quotes by 287 authors
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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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Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.
— A. S. Byatt
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As you walk, hop, hobble, or wheel Meeting people of different kinds, Remember that being handicapped Is only a state of mind
— Stephen Cosgrove
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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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Life is too small a container for certain individuals. Some of them, such as Alobar, huff and puff and try to expand the container. Others,…
— Tom Robbins
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It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of…
— Vita Sackville-West
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Mr. Feld was right; life was like baseball, filled with loss and error, with bad hops and wild pitches, a game in which even champions…
— Michael Chabon
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I'll tell you one thing about me, and that is that I'm not to keen on being bossed around. If, say, my Mom tells me…
— Deb Caletti
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I give you five minutes to spare your blushes. here is the little bronze key that opens the ebony caskets on the mantle piece in…
— Gaston Leroux
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My dream was always to hop up on stage in front of my fans every night and perform.
— Avril Lavigne
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She was my mother. I couldn't threaten to slap, stab, beat or even name call her. I tried to think of something to scare her…
— Jeaniene Frost
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I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I…
— Jacqueline Woodson
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Hop in? Dude, are you out of your ever-loving mind? I can’t touch this. I might leave a fingerprint or something. (Nick) Oh the horror.…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Stargirl began to improvise. She flung her arms to a make-believe crowd like a celebrity on parade. She waggled her fingers at the stars. She…
— Jerry Spinelli
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