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Reflect each day on all you have to be grateful for and you will receive more to be grateful for.
Chuck D
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Chuck D
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 1
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New York City
New York
Carlton Douglas Ridenhour
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The best medicine for pain sometimes is some kind of logic and common sense from older folks. They tell you, Okay, you're not the only one who actually went through this.
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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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Rap comes from the humble beginnings of rebelling against the status quo. Now, rappers have become the status quo themselves. You can't rebel against the Queen and then become the Queen yourself. I attribute much of the blame to testosterone-male dominance and patriarchy.
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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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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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A visit to the hood through a record, or through a video, or through a film, is a lot safer than actually visiting the people in real life. It became a business model. It became a revenue engine that, you know, you can get to the hood without ever going there.
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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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You can't master time, but you have to work your hardest to manage it.
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We didn't invent music, so it's been here for a reason, and it has powers for a reason. So we should pay attention to it, because we might not know the clear answers but we should at least acknowledge that it is something there. To not be playin around with it.
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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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The best American is one who considers themselves as a citizen of the world.
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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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Being called Black in America is the struggle to keep us moving and breathing over bloody water. Being a Nig**r or [Ni**a] without the context of history is like drowning in bloody water, dragging down those yet knowing to swim.
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