Roy Christopher > Quotes

“We don’t need to just make room, we need to change the defaults.”
― Roy Christopher, Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future

“When their future is outlawed, the outlaws become the future.”
― Roy Christopher, Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future

“When the head gets hacked, it’s the heart that is haunted.”
― Roy Christopher, Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future

“We are all perpetually holding ourselves together. Our breath, our blood, our food, our spit, our shit, our thoughts, our attention—all tightly held, all the time. Then at death we let it all out, oozing at once into the earth and gasping at last into the ether.”
― Roy Christopher, Escape Philosophy: Journeys Beyond the Human Body

“The singularity of making recordings out of other recordings is neither a rapture we can return from nor a rupture we can repair.”
― Roy Christopher, Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future