American culture Quote by Jess Row

American music culture is black culture.

— Yelawolf

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

— Miguel

In terms of black music - the only music that we can call our own, that was really born here - I don't think…

— Tom Waits

American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius - be it music, walk, style - but at the same time puts a low priority…

— Cornel West

You cannot have black music without something soulful in it, whether it's lyrically, how it's performed, or how it's expressed.

— BJ the Chicago Kid

Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense.

— Cornel West

I'm admitting that I don't know that to be true, but it does sound pretty good. So a big part of my childhood was…

— Moshe Kasher

African American music can't happen in Germany or in Italy or in Mumbai. If America disappeared off the face of the Earth today, the…

— David Simon

Black artists are encouraged to explore their identity but are then pigeonholed according to their ethnicity. We may have seen the decline of old…

— Munira Mirza

Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all.

— Dennis Rodman

The sad reality of it is, as black artists in the industry, we still have to work 10 times harder to get our voices…

— Ashton Sanders

Black artists deserve the opportunity to create work without the burden of alleviating the social ills plaguing many black communities.

— Clint Smith