Don’t get caught up on ‘I’m brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.’ You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492?
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAThe Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work.
More Afrika Bambaataa Quotes
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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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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.
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There’s a lot of people over time who have brought out all these funky records that everybody has started jumping on like a catch phrase.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white.
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If they think that there’s a lot of racism going on then there’s another Hip Hop artist who’s gonna come out and speak their mind.
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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.
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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
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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.
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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.
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The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
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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.
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