Hops Quotes - Page 27

• Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.

  Busta Rhymes

  Hip Hop, Trying, Negative

  "Rhymes and reason". Interview with Douglas Century, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2002.

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• People called rock & roll 'African music.' They called it 'voodoo music.' They said that it would drive the kids insane. They said that it was just a flash in the pan - the same thing that they always used to say about hip-hop.

  Little Richard

  Kids, Rocks, People

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• It's just that when you heard hip-hop, no matter where you were, it was a culture that kind of made you want to try to be part of it. Whether you thought you were an artist, whether you thought you could be a DJ, whether you thought you could breakdance, or whether you thought you could rap. It was the kind of culture that had a lot of open doors.

  Ice T

  Rap, Artist, Doors

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• Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.

  Saul Williams

  Party, Hip Hop, Hips

  "Hip-hop's poet laureate speaks out". Interview with Tyson Wheatley, www.cnn.com. January 17, 2005.

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• Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.

  A. S. Byatt

  Writing, Ink, Possession

  A S Byatt (2012). “Possession: A Romance”, p.133, Random House

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• It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Life, Time, Writing

  Vita Sackville-West, Mary Ann Caws (2003). “Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings”, p.125, Palgrave Macmillan

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• I give you five minutes to spare your blushes. here is the little bronze key that opens the ebony caskets on the mantle piece in the Louise-Phillipe room. In one of the caskets you will find a scorpion, in the other, a grasshopper, both very cleverly imitated in Japanese bronze: they will say yes or no for you. If you turn the scorpion round, that will mean to me, when I return that you have said yes. The grasshopper will mean no... The grasshopper, be careful of the grass hopper! A grasshopper does not only turn: it hops! It hops! And it hops jolly high!

  Gaston Leroux

  Mean, Keys, Giving

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• All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.

  Shane Claiborne

  Running, Children, People

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.176, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Oh, this beer here is cold, cold and hop-bitter, no point coming up for air, gulp, till it's all--hahhhh.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Funny, Beer, Air

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.240, Penguin

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• Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.

  Jay-Z

  Race, Hip Hop, Generations

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.196, Random House Group

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• Dogs are wonderful, and in many ways unique. But they are remarkably unremarkable in their intellectual and experiential capacities. Pigs are every bit as intelligent and feeling, by any sensible definition of the words. They can't hop into the back of a Volvo, but they can fetch, run and play, be mischievous, and reciprocate affection. So why don't they get to curl up by the fire? Why can't they at least be spared being tossed on the fire?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Running, Dog, Intelligent

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2009.

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• Hip-hop is a beautiful culture. It's inspirational, because it's a culture of survivors. You can create beauty out of nothingness.

  Mos Def

  Beautiful, Hip Hop, Survivor

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• My Dad says that being a Londoner has nothing to do with where you're born. He says that there are people who get off a jumbo jet at Heathrow, go through immigration waving any kind of passport, hop on the tube and by the time the train's pulled into Piccadilly Circus they've become a Londoner.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Dad, People, Immigration

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• A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Moving, Matter, Stories

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.74, A&C Black

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• Hip Hop was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. As long as it has soul to it, hip hop can live on.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, Long, Hip Hop

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• You are not doing hip hop; you ARE hip hop.

  KRS-One

  Hip Hop, Dancer, Hips

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• Everybody in hip-hop discriminates against gay people. Matter of fact, the exact opposite word of 'hip-hop,' I think, is 'gay.' Like yo, you play a record and if it's wack, 'That's gay, dog!' And I wanna just come on TV and just tell my rappers, just tell my friends, 'Yo, stop it, fam.'

  Kanye West

  Dog, Gay, Thinking

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• Life is about perspective and I have a different perspective from most. I am not trying to be in Hip Hop at 43 and looking like an old man. I always enjoyed business and my independence. I am an Entrepreneur.

  Damon Dash

  Men, Perspective, Entrepreneur

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• Hip-hop didn't invent anything… hip-hop re-invented everything.

  Grandmaster Caz

  Hip Hop, Hips

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• You can't control who likes you. If I got Backstreet Boy fans what am I supposed to do? Turn them away? Whoever likes my stuff, likes my stuff but just know Slim Shady is hip hop, I grew up on hip hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture...that's me.

  Eminem

  Boys, Hip Hop, Stuff

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hip-hop went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole Tri-State area and then to the rest of the United States and the rest of the world.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Hip Hop, United States, Different

  "Q & A: Afrika Bambaataa Spins Hip-Hop Knowledge". Q&A with Simon McCormack, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2010.

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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. I always say it's gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  People, Hip Hop, Political

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• I may be Jewish, but my religion is hip-hop.

  Josh Peck

  Hip Hop, May, Hips

  "‘Battle Of The Year’: Why Is Josh Holloway In A Break Dancing Movie? (And 24 Other Urgent Questions)". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2013.

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• Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!' It's the same mentality in sports.

  Michael Rapaport

  Sports, Hip Hop, Hips

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• But it all came, and for me, hip-hop has done more for racial divide and racial sort of bringing together than anything in the last 30 years. Seeing people like Eminem sounding like somebody like Jay-Z and just the racial aspects of it all.

  Michael Rapaport

  Years, People, Hip Hop

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 7, 2011.

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