“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.”

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.

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.

All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. Anything you can dance to is dance music.

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.

Overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.

We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.

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

Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.

The thing I love about Donald, it’s time this country is run by a businessman and not people with their hands out, and Donald doesn’t have his hands out.

I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.

When your hands are cold, and you’re hitting with old, low-quality irons – my first one was a Merlin model with a green shaft – you learn what to do to hit the ball solid.

Simply fantastic this circuit, and if you get 53 laps more, you appreciate it even more. It’s made by God’s hands.

Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.

You’d be waiting 30 or 40 years for me to build a table. I have more than two left hands.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.