Black Quote by Gail Ann Dorsey

Going back about 10 years ago, the only thing a black kid could do to get out of the ghetto was being a sports…

— Big Narstie

I grew up in predominantly black neighborhoods and went to predominantly black schools. And hip-hop is what I grew up listening to in my…

— Mark Wahlberg

It's good to be surrounded by black folks. Black folks are music.

— Jamie Foxx

I come in with this rock 'n' roll-oriented music, and it's not black enough . . . I've always had to deal with this black-white thing.

— Lenny Kravitz

As a black artist in America, you know, it is so segregated as far as the radio goes and how they position music on…

— Kelis

When we were doing shows in the mid-'90s, the audiences were 95% black. What's happened now is the gentrification of hip-hop. A lot of…

— Boots Riley

The Negro neighborhood, which is inferior, is begging for a chance to - integrate itself into that which is - is superior, which is…

— Malcolm X

I was relatively isolated from people of color. My parents are too old to be Baby Boomers; they had me later in life. So…

— Jess Row

White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop…

— Narada Michael Walden

The music I like or the football teams I like or the food I eat has nothing to do with me being black.

— Darius Rucker

I don't have a community like a black community to belong to [with] a musical platform that's been built for years and years and…

— M.I.A

Being black is the new awesome.

— Anonymous