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

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.

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.

I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.

Thanks to my traveling, and keeping up from place to place, and pushing our ideology – peace, love, unity, and having fun – it has worked.

I loved you long before you loved me. It’s the only thing i have you beat at, and i’ll bring it up every chance i get.

Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.

I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.

The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.

The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.

No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.

One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.

Before you get married you should meet your fiance’s parents. It is not enough that you like his parole officer.