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No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game.

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Chuck D
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 1
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Carlton Douglas Ridenhour
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I encourage more blacks and people of color to get a passport. That's one way to help put people on an equal platform.
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I don't believe that everybody is out of some kind of cookie cutter, so the thing that protects me is always being level with myself, even to myself.
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You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now.
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I never live alone, I never walk alone. My posse's always ready And they're waitin' in my zone.
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Truth is truth no matter what I think.
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People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection.
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Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party.
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What made me want to become a recording artist I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.
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Every time something tries to create respect with a machine it crumbles!
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Maybe we need to look upon technologies and social networks as things that come out of us, not things that lead us. We can be on top of these things instead of them bein' on top of us as human beings.
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Excuse us for the news, You might not be amused But did you know White comes from Black? No need to be confused.
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Cause I'm Black and I'm proud I'm ready and hyped plus I'm amped Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps
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DJ culture always made us aware that the best records were going to come from the small shops
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Rappers should just be able to perform what they create and satisfy the people that like and love them.
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I always remain optimistic.
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I totally hate when somebody takes a classic and desecrates it. I like Jimmy Page and P. Diddy, but what they did to 'Kashmir' was a debacle.
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I let go usually by talking to many people in different areas, in different realms of life that make me look at what I'm dealing with as being small fries stuff, you know?
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I always remain optimistic. There are three levels of music production: the majors, indies, and what I call inties, music distributed via the Internet. The Internet is one area that I have used pretty effectively to break free of corporate control.
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Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our similarities. Cultural exchange is the ultimate exchange.
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The biggest thing that has happened to hip-hop is the clinging on to the corporation as the all-mighty hub of the music.
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