Beat generation Quote by Jack Kerouac

The motif of Beat Generation is basically misunderstood, a misinterpreted area. There's this superimposition of the idea of a social rebellion, which was the…

— Allen Ginsberg

The Beat Generation - that term is even more familiar now, even more than say the '70s. Hype is built and established and people…

— Garrett Hedlund

The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in…

— Jack Kerouac

The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked.

— John Clellon Holmes

“The beat generation is a coffeehouse full of people expectantly looking at their watches waiting for the beat generation to come on. *1958”

— Mort Sahl

Certainly the beat writers I've known who carried forward the original, you know, I'd say that came together in the 1940s and 50s. So…

— Anne Waldman

“Still, it is a stretch to regard the beats as initiating a major cultural trend in the late 1950s, let alone to see them…

— James T. Patterson

“Hip Hop Generation “captures the collective hopes and nightmares, ambitions and failures of those who would otherwise be described as “post-this” or “post-that.” ”

— Jeff Chain in "Can't Stop Won't Stop A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

“The Hip-Hop generation is a fraud. A farce. It’s a generation of multi-million dollar stars with little to no positive impact on the “hood”…

— Ibn Bashir Muhammad a

But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency, immorality, amorality ... woe unto those who…

— Jack Kerouac

John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I…

— Jack Kerouac

That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.

— Talib Kweli