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That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to a... JAY-Z
This is the thing about hip-hop music and where people get it most misconstrued: It's all hip-ho... KENDRICK LAMAR
When I was CEO, and I'd listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration... BEN HOROWITZ
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a c... ERNEST HEMINGWAY We had to fight the connotations that come with hip-hop, like gangs, shootings and drugs. People don...
JAMES BUCKLEY A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They ju...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA Right now, when you look around and listen to radio and watch television, hip-hop is taking over. Cl...
DJ PAUL
Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are movi... ERYKAH BADU
Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gateke... WILL.I.AM Kind of the sad thing is that - it's still true - a lot of jazz people just listen to jazz, and ...
JOSE JAMES We have a real thing in hip-hop about out with the old, in with the new. I'm shocked about how littl...
DEBRA HARRIS A character is as much about what you do as what you say.
DARREN BOYD
More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result ... VANILLA ICE The nightmare of a film career, or at least the challenge of one, is that you're rarely going to...
CAMPBELL SCOTT I always want to know what's wrong with you, why you ain't smiling. That's just my character; I just...
WYCLEF JEAN
The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music ... TALIB KWELI
This character matters so much to so many people. I want to get that right. I want to do it justice.... HENRY CAVILL Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists,...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA He's a known character. We designed it so that when you see Caesar, it's through other people's eyes...
BRUNO HELLER This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.
YELAWOLF
Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't eve... JAY-Z I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the politica...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA We aren't attacking hip-hop. There are still very good things in hip-hop; I love hip-hop.
CORI MURRAY Confident people, who understand comedy, improvise so much better than people who are scared. You ca...
MARLON WAYANS Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's...
CAMERON CROWE There is so much about hip-hop culture that is peculiar to New York, and I got to understand it from...
JEFF CHANG Women dress very much according to their moods, so when you see their shoes, it really shows you the...
EDGARDO OSORIO When I came up in hip hop, there was no such thing as a Puerto Rican rapper doing hip hop for many m...
FAT JOE
You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete. People always s... DEREK JETER I don't think Puffy knows what he did for hip-hop. Because he intertwined hip-hop and R&B so...
MISSY ELLIOTT Your judgments about another person say more about your own character than the character of the pers...
ALARIC HUTCHINSON People only think these are two different genres. But they're very much the same... Rap and hip-hop ...
LUDACRIS
Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of beb... QUINCY JONES
A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the t... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call... LAURYN HILL The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip ...
VANESSA BROWN If you think too much about playing an icon, it will immobilize you. You have to treat it like a fre...
ERICA DURANCE We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, th...
RUTH RENDELL
If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own c... DEAN KOONTZ
A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might proper... KURT VONNEGUT
I'm very very happy for my hardships and misfortunes: they build character and make you a better... JENS LEKMAN
Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people. RUSSELL SIMMONS Prison make you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
SUGE KNIGHT
Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those peopl... EMINEM The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character,...
VICTORIA PRATT November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring toget...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA
I think hip-hop is no more misogynistic than America is as a society. I just think hip-hop is a lot ... TALIB KWELI Hip-hop is very commercial and is very open to commercial messages.
LUCIAN JAMES Hunting is about ethics and character. If you have good character you will become a good hunter.
BOBBY HARPER From wrestling to my hip-hop thing, I've just been able to do so much and meet so many crazy cha...
RANDY SAVAGE There is the moral spectrum in 'Fargo,' and you see it in other Coen brothers movies, where ...
NOAH HAWLEY
I remember going to one party of this preppy, bourgeois crowd, and there was some obnoxious characte... WHIT STILLMAN What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. No...
JACK ANTONOFF
Everyone in my story has it's own character, GreenHollyWood cheeky, hypocritical and near to mad guy... DEYTH BANGER Sometimes when you're playing a very intense character, a disturbed character, you find other la...
IRRFAN KHAN
You have to really straddle the fence. Definitely, you don't want to be a caricature. I hope to neve... BLAIR UNDERWOOD He's an advocate of the hip-hop community, which people normally see as negative, but he sees the st...
FAREN HUMES To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back ...
IAN MCDIARMID Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.
DOUG E. FRESH As much as I loved playing that character (on 'Committed'), it did scare me if that show had a long ...
JENNIFER FINNIGAN
Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person. DEREK JETER Ever since I was a kid, I was always a fan of hip hop. If you get your limelight whether your sixtee...
LIL MAMA Hip-hop is a style. Some of my owners are hip-hop, but they dress in a different fashion. Hip-hop do...
DAVID STERN My feeling was that, as much as Richard Dean Anderson is a beloved actor and character in the show, ...
RICHARD ANDERSON
My feeling was that, as much as Richard Dean Anderson is a beloved actor and character in the show, ... RICHARD DEAN ANDERSON
What seemed so original and unique and precious about what we were doing... That's a little rough, w... GEORGE EADS All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, b...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
You have the massive world that was created by Marvel, and then you have these very intimate actors ... CHRIS HEMSWORTH That's what was so amazing about 'Mulan.' Here is this story with all Chinese characters...
MING-NA WEN Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that proba...
PATRICK CARNEY I don't think Steve Scalise has a racist bone in his body. Steve and I have worked on issues tha...
CEDRIC RICHMOND
Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a ... FANNIE FLAGG If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a char...
JEZ BUTTERWORTH
It is very much a character piece and very much about relationships. A lot of the themes in the film... ANDY SERKIS I would assume most people hate my character. But I'm hoping that I'm the character you love to hate...
CHARLOTTE ROSS I just think that unless you have that cohesiveness in the family unit, the male character tends to ...
ELLEN JOHNSON SIRLEAF
People of noble character are afraid of keeping friendship with dishonorable people. But people of d... THIRUVALLUVAR
I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as ... EDDIE REDMAYNE Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, 'You're hip-hop!' You keep seeing sur...
JAMIE FOXX
I just think you really need to let people see as much as they can in a judicious way. By showing ev... JIM MURPHY
As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human be... JOAN CUSACK So to compare the Beatles, obviously the Beatles are the Beatles, but in hip-hop terms, Tribe is the...
MICHAEL RAPAPORT I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get...
KAT DAHLIA
I want people to know that I'm not just another kid M.C. I'm actually a fan of good music an... ASTRO The thing about Hip Hop today and music in general is that the people who created it meaning Blacks ...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA Money doesn't define people but character does. People with character will see pass the money. The p...
TROY GATHERS For youngsters to see just modern or ballet or hip-hop is wrong. I want them to see a rich variety.
GARTH FAGAN
When you've been a character in a movie - and this has happened when we've done concerts as ... CHRISTOPHER GUEST
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itse... WOODROW WILSON
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itse... WOODROW T. WILSON
People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character. JOHN OLIVER People are using (Islam) to carry out some of the frustrations that they have. But this is not just ...
SAFAA IBRAHIM How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA Here's the thing... when people start making music, they start borrowing styles from other peopl...
BENNY BLANCO
That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know. TALIB KWELI
You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy. G-EAZY
It's much easier to come back as a recurring character. Because you already know his traits and ... ADAM BEACH
When you are a person people can trust, they will call on upon you, love to be around you and work w... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being... TALIB KWELI
Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly ... AL PACINO
