“Don’t get caught up on ‘I’m brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.’ You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492?”

When you talk about hip-hop, you’re talking about the whole culture and movement. You have to take the whole culture for what it is.

All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.

The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work.

Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what’s around them.

I’d like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go.

I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.

Well hip hop is basically the whole culture of the movement. There’s the rap which is a form of hip hop culture.

That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.

It could be breakdancing, freestyle dancing or whatever type of dancing that’s happening now in the Black, Hispanic and White community.

There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.

We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let’s get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from.

It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.

If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it.

November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet.

A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don’t know what they’re talking about. They just think of the rappers.

I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.