Everybody needs to show respect to each others' ways and the cultural life that you get on this planet. Don't get caught up on 'I'm brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.' You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492? All these names we're using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
Interpretation
Respecting diverse cultures can help unite humanity beyond racial divides.
In this quote, Afrika Bambaataa emphasizes the importance of recognizing and respecting the various cultural identities that exist globally. He argues that racial labels and divisions created after 1492 are superficial and distract us from our shared humanity, urging people to look beyond these constructed identities to foster understanding and peace among different cultures.
In practice
This quote could be used in a multicultural event to promote unity among diverse groups.
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.
How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white.
I wear anything of culture, from the Earth or beyond. The whole planet is my shop.
A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They just think of the rappers. When you talk about hip-hop, you're talking about the whole culture and movement. You have to take the whole culture for what it is.
We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.
Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings.
Human rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression of a dimension that is at once individual and communitarian - a vision that brings out the unity of the person while clearly distinguishing between the dimension of the citizen and that of the believer.
By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy
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