Blackness Quote by Michael Eric Dyson

Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of Black America…

— Prince

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

— Todd Boyd

Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think.

— Conor Oberst

I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as…

— Quincy Jones

Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going…

— Jay-Z

If you think about it, hip-hop came out of nothing. It was a response to oppression.

— Cordae

Hip-Hop isn't just music. It also a spiritual movement of blacks! You can't just call hip-hop a trend.

— Lauryn Hill

Hip hop culture has done more for race relations in American than anything since Martin Luther King. And I really believe that.

— Steve Stoute

It's a slippery slope when you make the argument that hip hop is only a black person's art. Certainly, its origins are in that…

— Dave Itzkoff

I think hip-hop has always been political because this is a community that doesn't have any other choice.

— Ari Melber

Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!

— Lauryn Hill