Black culture Quote by Thomas Chatterton Williams

Hip-hop isn't dead by any means, but it's not something I define my black identity with.

— Justin Simien

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

Hip Hop offers new ways of seeing and understanding what it means to be black at this pivotal time in history.

— Todd Boyd

“Patriarchal hip-hop ushered in a world where black males could declare that they were “keeping it real” when what they were really doing was…

— bell hooks

“While the patriarchal boys in hip-hop crew may talk about keeping it real, there has been no musical culture with black men at the…

— bell hooks

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

The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection…

— Saul Williams

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

— Chad Hugo

The problem is, authentic hip-hop culture is street culture. And so you've got middle-class blacks really emulating the norms of the South Bronx, which…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

The new-school hip-hop generation exists with a mandate to 'keep it real'; this has to do with embracing a hard-nosed truth about the world…

— Todd Boyd

Hip Hop is the rebirth of civilization. For people who were disconnected from their continent, from their language, from their culture, and from their…

— Jamaal Bowman

The way you respect hip-hop is by being true to yourself.

— Lil Dicky