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“American music culture is black culture.”

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Author:Yelawolf

“Black culture is cool, but black issues sure aren't, huh?”

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Author:Azealia Banks

“I wanted to explore black culture, and I wanted that culture to be a revelation.”

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Author:Alvin Ailey

“I will not perform in this city as long as the blatant targeting of black culture and minorities congregating is acceptable common practice.”

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Author:Illmaculate

“We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle-class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival. Indeed the attraction of black culture for disaffected whites suggests that black culture now speaks to a general condition.”

Source: The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

“What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we loved black culture?”

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Author:Amandla Stenberg

“I majored in directing. However, I did spend some time at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, so I am somewhat well-versed in African Studies.”

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Author:Chadwick Boseman

“If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.”

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Author:Jackson Katz

“I was in Paris last year, where there's a great appreciation of many different aspects of African culture and of black culture. The music... the art... whatever... And I kind of went with that.”

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Author:Lenny Kravitz

“I've always loved black culture; I don't know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone.”

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Author:Robert Greene

“One of the facets of growing up the way I did, I never had the experience of being solely in the black community. Even my family, my mother is what they call Creole, so she's part French, part black, and grew up in Louisiana. It's a very specific kind of blackness that is different than what is traditionally thought of as the black community and black culture. So, I never felt a part of whatever that was.”

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Author:Justin Simien