Aja Brown Quotes

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.

It's very difficult to change the perception people have of you.

Among the many international consequences of Barack Obama's stunning victory in the United States is worldwide introspection about whether such a breakthrough could happen elsewhere. Could a person of color win power in other white-majority countries?

Interracial marriages were basically legalized, but nevertheless, there was a social stigma attached to them for a long time to come. I imagine that's going to be true for same-sex marriages - that people's emotional comfort level with it will not fully materialize for decades.

I had great admiration for the election of President Obama. I believe that the U.S. at that moment showed tremendous capacity to show that it is a great nation, and it surprised the world. It may be very difficult to be able to elect a black president in the U.S. - as it was very difficult to elect a woman president in Brazil.

When I moved to Beijing in 2005 to write, I was accustomed to hearing the story of China's transformation told in vast, sweeping strokes - involving one fifth of humanity and great pivots of politics and economics.

The infidels of one age have been the aureoled saints of the next.

Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.

Instead of trying to change people, we could change the world.

I miss the silliness of the Nineties. What would society be like if 9/11 never happened? If that silliness was extended forever?

I put Compton on the map.

To try and act like we haven't had great progress is not true. Obama didn't fail - he changed the psyche of the nation and, in some ways, the world.

I consider 'Dope' a part of the new mainstream.

I have to tell you, virtually every country I've gone to, the Catholic church is on the cutting edge of social change. Really extraordinary.

Nothing changes in the world because of cinema.

Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.

When hip-hop came along, men and women started dressing down as a form of rebellion.

Thank you to Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Universal Studios, and the Grammys for telling the story of what Compton was and is becoming.

The perception about me has changed to a certain extent after the success of 'Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety.'

Hip-Hop went from selling crack to smoking it

The world will be changed by western women.

Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.

The '80s was brand new. It was AIDS. It was gangbanging. It was starting to become big dope-dealing, and crack was starting to flood the neighborhoods. And then you had hip hop, which was something new, other than what we were doing, which was sports, playing football, basketball, baseball. And I was excited.

The world really changed after 9/11, not just in the tragic way, but in every way. So it took me a couple of years to even understand how my art form I could process any of this. When the world changed, eliciting laughter with subjects that were funny to me before 9/11 just didnt seem good enough.

We can change the world one thought at a time, one child at a time, one family at a time, one community at a time, one city, one state and one country at a time.