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All I want is peace and love on this planet. Ain't that how God planned it?

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Chuck D
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 1
Composer
Journalist
Musician
Radio Personality
Rapper
Record Producer
Singer
Television Producer
Writer
New York City
New York
Carlton Douglas Ridenhour
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Planets
Peace
Love
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No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game.
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I want to always move forward with everything I am doing. So, I do the radio show, speak at universities and other social institutions all around the world, appear on TV, and continue to create music all in the hope to keep the struggle alive.
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If you want to be an artist, truly try to write what you believe, and if you write when you don't believe then you should try to become an actor.
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There's people who feel that, Well, if I could profit off of sellin' sex to an eleven-year-old kid that comes through some kind of virtual portal, then I'm not really doin' it in actuality. I'm just kind of co-signing or fostering it, 'cause it can't be attached to me. I'm like, Yes it can, 'cause people are livin' through their avatar.
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I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock.
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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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I have to be conscious of what I'm sayin' because people are gonna come at me about this sh*t.
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I wanna go to the clubs and actually have a good time too, but at the same time, when the party's over, I have to go back to the real world and try to figure out who I am.
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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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I think governments are the cancer of civilization.
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I'm a multi-tasker. I was down with that stuff before they invented the term.
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Many have forgotten what we came here for, Never knew or had a clue, so you're on the floor. Just growin' not known' about your past... Now you're lookin' pretty stupid while you're shakin' your ass.
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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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If you empty, you can be filled up with anything. It could be water or it could be gasoline.
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Corporations have steered the industry into what it wants, and a lot of times they will make artists record what it wants or to make songs talk to who they want to talk to. But sometimes the heart and the head have to be able to talk and deal with a situation that's evident.
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To live a life you love, you must Love the life you live.
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Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.
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I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things.
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I always tell people that I was fortunate I was able to come in with a group of men. We didn't come into the game with a group of boys. We were young then. So your cats keep you in check.
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Today, a young person that doesn't know themselves will totally be sold some other situation. Let's do your avatar. You know? And young people are going out, spending what little they have to try to buy themselves when they don't have themselves, or they feel like they don't have themselves. To me, that's like a damn pimp tragedy.
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