I’m here to inspire young people to be part of the most magnificent culture on earth: hip-hop. KRS-One Read Quote
Illiteracy causes violence. If you don’t have enough words in your vocabulary, you can’t even seek your way out of a situation. KRS-One Read Quote
I have to put a business model together because certain businesses are approaching me as a legend, as if I’m on my way out. Same goes for the way I get presented on the VH1 Hip Hop Honors and BET. I get lifetime achievement awards because of who I am and what I’ve done, but they want to put me in a place, as if I’m on my way out. KRS-One Read Quote
I look at it like this: you may only sell 20,000 to 100,000 albums. But those albums are going to be heard by future doctors, lawyers, judges, firemen, etc. Those albums are being sold to the right people that move society. They’re interested in what you have to say. KRS-One Read Quote
Hip hop is a human skill, and the practice of real hip hop should remind us of our humanity. KRS-One Read Quote
Educate yourself, because this society is geared to have us hate each other. The longer we hate each other, the more we can’t come together as humanity and look at the knuckleheads screwing it up for everybody. KRS-One Read Quote
When you know your self-worth, and you read and you ask questions and you study and you travel, you become free. KRS-One Read Quote
When we say, ‘Look, Donald Trump was a friend to hip hop back in the day; so was Bill Clinton,’ It doesn’t mean that because he was a friend to hip hop back in the day, that the same Bill Clinton wasn’t at the lead of this mass incarceration of African Americans today. KRS-One Read Quote
