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Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill. A lot of times, people want to take the easy way out, because it's basically what they've understood throughout their lives.

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Chuck D
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 1
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Carlton Douglas Ridenhour
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As a late teenager, the punk movement pushed me further. In particular, the Clash, which happened to leak through the time of disco, showed me that there was this cross-cultural sound that could cut across genres and audiences. Like punk was to disco, rap music was a rebellion against R&B, which had adopted disco and made it worse.
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Truth is truth no matter what I think.
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Comin' from the school of hard knocks, Some perpetrate...they drink Clorox. Attack the black, cause I know they lack exact The cold facts, and still they try to Xerox.
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I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.
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I'm a multi-tasker. I was down with that stuff before they invented the term.
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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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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'm recording freely, and if I make a song, I release it immediately, so I'm more likely to believe in one song at a time as opposed to albums.
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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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As black people we were out to further our equality. I don't pay attention to the controversial connotations put on by media and the undermining labels they place on us. We pay attention to what our community situation is and what we need.
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If I can't change the people around me, I change the people around me.
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Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no moral code, it's just about successful business for America.
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Minds are the real estate of the 21st century.
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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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Oh, America is slipping away from the rest of the consciousness of the planet - slipping away.
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Every time something tries to create respect with a machine it crumbles!
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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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