Lawrence "Kris" Parker (KRS-One) Quotes

If I were to critique myself - step out of KRS objectively and look at him - I would say that KRS has introduced the concept of being hip-hop, not just doing it. The concept of rap as something we do, while hip-hop is something we live. The concept of living a culture. Don't just look at hip-hop as rap music, see it as a culture.

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• Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Culture
  • Popular
  • Force

• African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • American
  • Black
  • Culture

• The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Long
  • Real
  • Business

• Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Culture
  • Voice
  • Limit

• Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?

  

  Tablo
  • Culture
  • You
  • Know

• Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.

  

  Hal David
  • Life
  • Different
  • May

• I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • World
  • Art
  • Culture

• I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

  

  J. Cole
  • Know
  • Attention
  • Care

• When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Culture
  • Faith
  • Die

• It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Music
  • Rap
  • Goddess

• So 'The Last Airbender' 's philosophy and culture feels like a beautiful idea to me: That we inherently have connections to the elements and what they teach us, and to each other.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Beautiful
  • Culture
  • Idea

• Culture is more important than politics and government.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Important
  • Culture
  • Politics

• If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Live
  • Country
  • Culture

• When I started making music, I was so heavy into the hyphy movement. That's something you only know so much about if you were right there living in it, submerged in the culture.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Know

• Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Women
  • Culture
  • Intelligent

• I go to South Dakota for ceremonies when I have the time. And when you learn what the Indian peoples have gone through to hold onto their culture and traditions... wow, it's an amazing story.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Amazing

• The one album I can't live without is called 'Cumbolo' by a band called Culture. Every song on their album is deep, but there's one in particular called 'This Train.' I have a tattoo of the lyrics on my left arm.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Live
  • Song
  • Culture

• I'm not becoming western; I am still following my Pashtun culture, and I'm wearing a shalvar kamiz, a dupatta on my head.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Culture
  • Western
  • Pashtun

• I'm not afraid to use my personal experiences and put them into a song. I think that's when you get the best stuff anyway, when it's real emotion.

  

  Pixie Lott
  • Real
  • Song

• If you don't have a flag sticking out of your ass, you must be a communist.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Ass
  • Communist
  • Flag

• Look, it was an accident. Five thousand accidents happen every day - bizarre, tragic, farcical... they're Acts of God fit only to amaze the survivors and irritate the Insurance Company...

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • God
  • Insurance

• God's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.

  

  Mark Twain
  • God

• Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Knowledge
  • Lost
  • Understood

• If I were to critique myself - step out of KRS objectively and look at him - I would say that KRS has introduced the concept of being hip-hop, not just doing it. The concept of rap as something we do, while hip-hop is something we live. The concept of living a culture. Don't just look at hip-hop as rap music, see it as a culture.

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
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  • Critique