Actually Quote by Glenn Hughes

America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms; its humor; its music.

— Sonny Rollins

I know how to be funny to black audiences.

— Brandon T. Jackson

I don't tend to like race jokes. I don't like Jew jokes and black jokes, and they make me very uncomfortable, probably because I'm…

— Iliza Shlesinger

I don't think I'm really so unique. If every black person looked at their life they would quickly discover that they have been influenced…

— Roy Ayers

I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black…

— Tommy Chong

I'd been listening to African-American music since the first record I ever bought, which was by Sam Cooke. And it sounds more like my…

— David Toop

I have a black sense of humor. You try living my life, see what color yours turns.

— Karen Marie Moning

The thing is: Yes, I'm white and yes, I love African music, and I can't do anything about it.

— Jain

I am the greatest thing to happen to black music.

— Thom Yorke

Just because I grew up a white guy in America doesn't mean that's the music of my life.

— Ezra Koenig

Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't…

— Redd Foxx

I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.

— William Christopher Handy