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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.
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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DJ culture always made us aware that the best records were going to come from the small shops
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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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