black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Afrika Bambaataa

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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Culture Hip Hop Movement Music Rapper Sound Talk Talking Whole
The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Equality Freedom Fun Justice Peace Understanding Unity Universal
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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Attention Hip Hop Like People Political Science
Overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Call Fact Faith God Mathematics Negative Overcoming Positive Religious Science Thought Wonder
I’m as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes. My style comes from looking at what came before me, and from visiting a lot of places.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Lake Moon Old Star Tree Young
We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Between Down East Foolishness Hip Hop Slow Trying West
A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don’t know what they’re talking about. They just think of the rappers.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Hip Hop Music Rapper Talking Thinking
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.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Artist Business Government Hip Hop Mind Nervous People Speak
It could be breakdancing, freestyle dancing or whatever type of dancing that’s happening now in the Black, Hispanic and White community.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Breakdancing Community Dancing Freestyle Happening Type White
You put music in categories because you need to define a sound, but when you don’t play it on your so-called radio stations that claim to be R&B or jazz or whatever.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Categories Define House Need People Sound Thinking
Hip-hop has been hijacked by a Luciferian conspiracy. People have used hip-hop in a lot of ways that cause a lot of mind problems. They use the word wrongfully. They use it to mean a part instead of a whole.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Conspiracy Hijacked Hip Hop Luciferian Mean People
I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Beat Bought Break Hear Much Sound
That’s definitely my goal, and always has been through the Universal Zulu Nation, is to show that music breaks down all that foolishness and can bring all types of people together, especially when you can mix it and shape it.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Always Been Break Down Especially Foolishness Goal Mix Music Nation People Shape Show Through Together Universal
Hip-hop has crossed many boundaries and racial barriers, broken them down for people to come together, to listen to the music or come out of their own social ills in each of the countries that it has went to.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Barries Boundaries Country Crossed Fun Listen People Together
Don’t get caught up on ‘I’m brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.’ You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492?
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Ask Before Black Blue Brown Called Caught Fighting Name Red White
All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

Each Fighting Illusion Keep Name Other Using

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Afrika Bambaataa Quotes