Quote by Kurt Andersen

“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

“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

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

I never did know exactly what was meant by the term "The Beats," but let's say that the original meeting, association, comradeship of Allen…

— Gary Snyder

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

There's a lot of hip-hop that's oriented toward a progressive view of America because it's oriented toward a civil rights progress and a critique…

— Ari Melber

I was a beatnik in the '50s before the hippies came along.

— Charles Manson

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

— Talib Kweli

I find it fascinating how hip hop as a culture mirrors every mythology from the beginning of mythology. The concept of the single mother…

— KRS-One

The old West Coast rappers are the way I rap; they weren't always on beat but it was about telling a story. I'm just…

— Blueface

Being materialistic is part of the hip-hop community's nature, because jazz and blues and rock 'n' roll, when they started out in the urban…

— Russell Simmons

“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