Quotes by Afrika Bambaataa

The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.

Id 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 its 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.

They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. Thats like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies.

You want to buy cars and houses and castles, all of thats on you and how America has systematized your mind to be into materialism. Hip-hop aint got nothing to do with that. Im glad that anybody making money has picked themselves up - I just want them to give some of it back to the community.