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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
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Carlton Douglas Ridenhour
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Getting on the road and driving along a road at night, or even in the daytime and seeing the oceans or whatever, is always liberating.
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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'm not a firm believer of mo' money mo' problems - I think that's stupid. I think it's that problems are already there that can be exacerbated by more things you don't understand.
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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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My advice to young people is ask older people questions and don't be afraid.
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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 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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If you go get a passport, it might encourage you to at least consider the world around you.
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The truth has no form, you know. It's not like walking around trying to actually ask for favors and to be acknowledged, it is what it is.
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Men have periods they're called wars.
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Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!
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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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Oh, America is slipping away from the rest of the consciousness of the planet - slipping away.
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I think traveling the world has helped to keep Public Enemy alive. We've never solely depended on the United States.
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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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You know, it's nothin' quick overnight. If anything happens to you quick, you need to start questioning that. You know, you hear young people go, aw, I'm gonna blow up. You gonna blow up but with a controlled explosion. Don't just blow up all over the place.
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Let the voice be the voice of the voiceless and let it come from the world of rap music to keep the stereotype and the peace at the same time.
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I tell each artist they have to grow toward a revenue stream.
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Burn, Hollywood, burn, I smell a riot goin' on, First they're guilty, now they're gone!
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I think governments are the cancer of civilization.
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