Community Quote by Ta-Nehisi Coates Download Open image “The ties between the Obama White House and the hip-hop community are genuine.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community Genuine Hip hop House Ties White house
If Obama's enormous symbolic power draws primarily from being the country's first black president, it also draws from his membership in hip-hop's foundational generation. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Barack Obama embraced hip-hop, man. That's the way he got through to kids. — Dizzee Rascal Copy Share Image
If you take a guy like a Barack Obama, who's raised millions of dollars from the most donors in the history of this nation,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Hip-hop has done more for race relations than most cultural icons; and I say save Martin Luther King, because his 'I Have A Dream'… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Hip hop culture has done more for race relations in American than anything since Martin Luther King. And I really believe that. — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image
The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting. — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
I tell you this once, hip hop is not dead. Change gon come just like Barack said. — Jadakiss Copy Share Image
Growing up in New York City and hip-hop are two inseparable things, two things that are totally intertwined in our lives. — Mike D Copy Share Image
“To Trump whiteness is neither notional nor symbolic but is the very core of his power. In this, Trump is not singular. But whereas… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“The focus on one sector of Trump voters—the white working class—is puzzling, given the breadth of his white coalition. Indeed, there is a kind… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
What I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is right that you feel it all… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I think 'Dear White People,' the show, is a tremendous artistic achievement. It's always hinting that there is something beyond the pleading and wokeness,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
[Winning the White House was an achievement], but as an African-American, [Barack Obama], I think the symbolism is in how he conducted himself. The… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Like a lot of people, I'm very, very concerned about Senator Clinton's record. I'm very, very concerned about where her positions were in the… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“I drove away, as always, thinking of you. I do not believe that we can stop them, Samori, because they must ultimately stop themselves.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe. What I’m… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an ability to… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
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