Country Quote by Tevin Campbell

Ever since I visited Paris when I was younger, the sappy side of me really wanted to write a song about it someday.

— Lauv

“The whiteness celebrated in Paris is Burning is not just any old brand of whiteness but rather that brutal imperial ruling-class capitalist patriarchal whiteness…

— Bell Hooks

We made it known that we were trying to show the reality of France. People think of Paris as the city of love or…

— Mathieu Kassovitz

Before many black singers were still labouring under that problem of God; it was often 'God will save us'. But right through the blacks…

— John Lennon

“Every man's Paris is his own, with its own characteristics, and is in some respects at least unlike the Paris of any one else.”

— Sidney Dark

People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate, where you…

— Mathieu Kassovitz

“The air of Paris is quite different from any other. There's something about it which thrills and excites and intoxicates you, and in some…

— Guy de Maupassant

I was in Paris last year, where there's a great appreciation of many different aspects of African culture and of black culture. The music...…

— Lenny Kravitz

You go through the Civil Rights struggle, everybody knew the songs - 'We shall overcome.' Everybody would sing it. Music helped us. James Brown,…

— Geoffrey Canada

You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that…

— Allen Ginsberg

Paris was a melting pot.

— Sonia Rykiel

The black artist's role in America is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it.

— Amiri Baraka