“Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.”
“... her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars' worth of rap CDs but, as expected, I'm at a loss: [...] voices uttering ugly words like digit, pudding, chunk.”
“...I didn't feel like there was anything incompatible with my love of gangster rap and my spiritual aspirations.”
“Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.”
“Then she said sometimes the ways boys need things so badly, like they could never stop needing, it almost scared her.”
“Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.”