"Hip-hop is a complex music and culture that has been reduced to a one-dimensional critique. Hip-hop's messages aren't all bad. Neither are they all good."

-- Bakari Kitwana

#Hip Hop Quotes #Culture Quotes #Messages Quotes

“Many people nowadays live in a series of interiors...disconnected from each other. On foot everything stays connected, for while walking one occupies the spaces between those interiors in the same way one occupies those interiors. One lives in the whole world rather than in interiors built up against it.”
“I don't want any woman to think that I don't have empathy and deep care for all women's body issues. I just want to make sure that we don't only focus on the most palatable ones.”
“America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.”
“Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of propaganda.”
“Is an artist much more than a beggar?”

Source : Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, Eva Weissweiler, Hildegard Fritsch, Ronald L. Crawford (1994). “The complete correspondence of Clara and Robert Schumann”, Peter Lang Pub Inc
“By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy.”
“Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.”
“Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation”

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