It's only when an American steps outside of their own culture that you see how integral it is.

You think about every piece of idiomatic speech adopted by white men over the past ten or twenty years; virtually all of it comes from hip-hop.

It's only when an American steps outside of their own culture that you see how integral it is.

I was relatively isolated from people of color. My parents are too old to be Baby Boomers; they had me later in life. So we didn't listen to any black music at all in the house, not even Ben E. King.

I had observed people whose identity crises around race seemed analogous to other people's identity crises around gender.

The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate.

There's been a lot of talk about black men and the presence and absence of black men in positions of power in American culture.