There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, ‚black feminist‘ does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it’s just… womanish.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

If you’re going to write about rap music and hip-hop, and you don’t love it, then we don’t need your opinion, and we revoke your opinion.

Obscenity comes from grime.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

‚Evil men have no songs.‘ How is it that the Russians have songs?

I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

Everybody is entertained to death.

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We’re obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

The word ‚racism‘ is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything – and demanding evidence makes you a ‚racist.‘

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

While victimhood in America is exalted, I don’t think our veterans should join those ranks.

Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

Chefs are nutters. They’re all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

Rap was my drug.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

I really like hip-hop and rap; that’s my main influence. I really wanna be more of a hip-hop artist.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

It’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we’ve always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

Yup, the whole birther movement was racist.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.