Black Quote by KRS-One

I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher's…

— Henry Rollins

I never quite lived up to the image of the black man as I saw it growing up. I was never listening to the…

— Justin Simien

Black youth, in general, have no understanding of our past. Young black people who don't know who Martin Luther King Jr. was, don't know…

— Yolanda King

When I was coming up, we didn't have the movement of Black Girl Magic or Black Girls Rock, but my parents made it their…

— Naturi Naughton

There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things…

— Sam Phillips

Rap started as this very black, socio-political type of thing. And now it's turned into pop music - we laugh about how everybody is…

— Stephen Glover

We were coming out of the black community with this thing called rap music, which was basically black men yelling at the top of…

— Chuck D

I grew up listening to hip hop and embracing black culture, probably because it was 'outsider art.'

— Hiro Murai

You can't imagine hip-hop without the Black Panthers. Today, hopefully, the movement can be an inspiration to people. These were people who made mistakes…

— Stanley Nelson Jr

Rap or hip-hop music emerged in the West because of the atrocities against the Blacks. Their lyrics had a certain style of rebellion and…

— Badshah

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

Hip Hop offers new ways of seeing and understanding what it means to be black at this pivotal time in history.

— Todd Boyd