Black Quote by Robert Bly

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

The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits ever since 1994. You would never learn that from most of the…

— Thomas Sowell

We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music,…

— Jason Whitlock

I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the…

— Ice Cube

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

Young black men are not only being arrested and channeled into the criminal justice system in record numbers, they are also being targeted by…

— Henry Giroux

I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and…

— Saul Williams

Not only the brothers on the street but the middle class brothers are also identifying with the gangster rappers because of the extent to…

— Angela Davis

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

Broadcaster: Rap is Dead Black people be like R.I.P They just killed a thug

— Giavonna Stayturntup Gillespie

With the black male as a teenager, where you're coming from the ghettos and that kind of stuff, you've got to assert yourself, be…

— Q-Tip

By some estimates, 80% of rap music is bought by white youth. And this makes for another irony. The blooming of white alienation has…

— Shelby Steele