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If I can't change the people around me, I change the people around me.

Chuck D

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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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Rappers should just be able to perform what they create and satisfy the people that like and love them.
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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 go get a passport, it might encourage you to at least consider the world around you.
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I think governments are the cancer of civilization.
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Every time something tries to create respect with a machine it crumbles!
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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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You can actually take your pain and processes it into some kind of form of art. So I mean, I've easily always been able to do that, but also I've always been able to give myself perspective - or, you know, older people always give you perspective.
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Reflect each day on all you have to be grateful for and you will receive more to be grateful for.
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The powers that be are trying to meld, shape, and corral the culture of hip-hop into another speaking voice for the government.
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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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Bigger doesn't mean better unless you really understand what bigger is.
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My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.
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We don't see the people who are doing real things getting enough props. We often see politicians who are everywhere but nowhere at the same goddamn time. You know the kind of person: You see them everywhere on television but nowhere in front of your face.
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Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.
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The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I'm glad to be a part of it.
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Find like-minded people and try not to be individualized to the point where you try to fight it all and think about it all on your own.
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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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Truth is truth no matter what I think.
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When culture is created in boardrooms with a panel of six or seven strategists for the masses to follow, to me that is no different than an aristocracy. It's not created from the people in the middle of the streets, so to speak. It is created from a petri dish for the sake of making money, and it is undermining the longevity of the culture.
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