American Quote by Rob Pilatus

As much as people try to pit black entertainers against one another, because of the underlying feeling that there can't be two of us,…

— David Banner

Black people are experiencing a systemic disadvantage, and it goes back to slavery, which was not that long ago.

— Justin Simien

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

I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.

— Dennis Rodman

Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that…

— Saul Williams

I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.

— August Wilson

Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years,

— Geraldo Rivera

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

People need to realize that because black people have been established in the U.S. for a lot longer than in the U.K., the culture's…

— AJ Tracey

It took a long time for hip-hop to become commercial. Now there's all these big black icons that came from nowhere to somewhere. Look…

— Skepta

There's a lot of other rappers that aren't what they claim to be, and they get a pass because they're black.

— Logic

I don't want to exaggerate; having as many African American men as we've had in the criminal-justice system, and the amount of time it…

— Barack Obama