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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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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 hip hop should be a living word. And what I mean by the living word is like yo, you gotta have the words that provide life.
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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 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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I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things.
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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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DJ culture always made us aware that the best records were going to come from the small shops
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I tell each artist they have to grow toward a revenue stream.
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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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My advice to young people is ask older people questions and don't be afraid.
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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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Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding don't come out of the microwave. You got to keep moving forward because the evil doesn't sleep.
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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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The best American is one who considers themselves as a citizen of the world.
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Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!
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You're always going to sound like yourself, but you can make really strong attempts to keep some similarities, but move away from what you did before for popularity's sake.
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I'm a multi-tasker. I was down with that stuff before they invented the term.
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Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it's just posturing. Somebody who claims to speak for the 'hood don't need no private jet.
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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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