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“A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.”
― Decoded
― Decoded
“You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.”
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― Decoded
“This one is for our crew, but it’s also for all the weird girls and word nerds, for all the in-the-middle wickeds and queers and misfits and hell-raisers.”
― Sister Mischief
― Sister Mischief
“Much success to you, even if you wish me the opposite/ sooner or later we'll all see who the prophet is.”
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“While the patriarchal boys in hip-hop crew may talk about keeping it real, there has been no musical culture with black men at the forefront of its creation that has been steeped in the politics of fantasy and denial as the more popular strands of hip-hop.”
― We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
― We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
“A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.”
― You Are Not a Gadget
― You Are Not a Gadget
“Hip-hop...has been the proverbial key that’s opened the door for me to roam this breathtaking planet.”
― Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
― Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
“In our hip-hop lives we make rhymes we make beats we go big or go home. - Esme from Sister Mischief”
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“We'd taken up our positions on the benches between the school hall and a newly-installed outdoor basketball court. Being hip-hoppers, we were obliged to be obsessed with basketball. None of us had a ball.”
― Coconut Unlimited
― Coconut Unlimited
“The truth is the truth and the real is the real, and you have the right to say exactly how you feel.”
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“You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink, you can lead someone to knowledge but you can't make him think”
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“50 Cent is a master player at power, a kind of hip-hop Napoleon Bonaparte.”
― The 50th Law: Overcoming Adversity Through Fearlessness
― The 50th Law: Overcoming Adversity Through Fearlessness
“Fairly accurate, adequate with the magic experiencing a dynamic range. It's not what you have but what you can give away.”
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“Verder zou ik haar bijbrengen dat het niet manhaftig was om te pesten, om baldadig, cynisch en uitlokkend te zijn, zaken waar je aanzien mee verwierf in de Marokkaanse hiphopcultuur op 'zwarte' scholen. Dat dat niet van bravoure maar van dieptriestheid getuigde. Ik zou haar vertellen dat ze niet kansarm was, dat ze het niet moest toelaten dat iemand haar dat in de schoenen schuift.”
― Ik ga leven
― Ik ga leven
“Rap music is the newspaper of black people.”
― Other People's Property: A Shadow History of Hip-Hop in White America
― Other People's Property: A Shadow History of Hip-Hop in White America
“I don't think gay boys can become hip-hop music stars. ...can't be soft in a solid-gold industry where punk, sissy, faggot, and bitch are lyrics that sell out concerts and generate Billboard record sales.”
― How the Boogeyman Became a Poet: A YA Memoir in Verse of a Black, Gay Teen's Journey to Self-Discovery through Poetry
― How the Boogeyman Became a Poet: A YA Memoir in Verse of a Black, Gay Teen's Journey to Self-Discovery through Poetry
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