Black Quote by Michael Kiwanuka

Back in those days, all us skinny white British kids were trying to look cool and sound black. And there was Hendrix, the ultimate…

— Ronnie Wood

By that point, I was about 12, 13 years old. I was this young black kid into rock music, which was kind of strange.…

— Michael Kiwanuka

For just being a black artist in rock n' roll and be able to step outside and create, and make great music. And just…

— Future

Jimi Hendrix is one of the main influences on why I wanted to play guitar. He really shook me. I think it was his…

— John 5

After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking…

— Kirk Hammett

At first, Hendrix went and became a superstar in London, but if he walked past the Apollo in Harlem, no one would know who…

— Nayvadius Cash

Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. Remember, he was a chocolate, cherubic-faced genius with an African American…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I think that [Eddie Murphy's famous "White Like Me"] is probably the first time I thought, "Oh. Being black is different. That is a…

— Neal Brennan

Michael [Jackson] reconstructed his face and deconstructed the African features into a spooky European geography of fleshly possibilities, and yet what we couldn't deny,…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Since the main problem that American, the Afro- Americans have is a lack of cultural identity. It is necessary to teach [people] that they…

— Malcolm X

Mike Bloomfield sat down and started playing, and I went, whoa! Because I had never heard any white person play like that before. And…

— Al Kooper

In my world, before I knew about Eddie Van Halen, I was playing piano, and at that point in my teenage life, I thought…

— Lzzy Hale