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The best American is one who considers themselves as a citizen of the world.
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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If you go get a passport, it might encourage you to at least consider the world around you.
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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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People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection.
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You can actually take your pain and processes it into some kind of form of art. So I mean, I've easily always been able to do that, but also I've always been able to give myself perspective - or, you know, older people always give you perspective.
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If you empty, you can be filled up with anything. It could be water or it could be gasoline.
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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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Rappers should just be able to perform what they create and satisfy the people that like and love them.
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Why would twenty-six-year-old teenagers care about political ramifications if their backs are not up against the wall? But if their backs are against the wall they may be plucked to fight in Iraq, and all of sudden they become politicized real quick.
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