Beat generation Quote by John Clellon Holmes

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

— Jack Kerouac

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

Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.

— Jay-Z

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

Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“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

Greatest generation came through some stuff that we can't even imagine - the Depression, World War I - and all they wanted after that…

— P. J. O'Rourke

A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.

— Otto von Bismarck

The generation that followed did not have the same concerns; none of its members attempted to follow the example of the past generation. There…

— Cheikh Anta Diop

It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on…

— Jack Kerouac

They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation…

— Jack Kerouac