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Where else can you go with respect to the work, lyrics, and message of the music? If you are past high school age, you can get by with saying very little the first or second time around. However, after a while you know you are going to have to say something beyond high school stuff.

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Chuck D
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 1
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If I can't change the people around me, I change the people around me.
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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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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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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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Ever since I was a teenager, I was always kind of, like, checking myself. You know, like, Come on man, don't get your head all swollen. Life and time itself will give you perspective on what you're doing. So, that's actually what's always been a reminder in my own head.
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Bigger doesn't mean better unless you really understand what bigger is.
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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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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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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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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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I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock.
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I never live alone, I never walk alone. My posse's always ready And they're waitin' in my zone.
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No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game.
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Many have forgotten what we came here for, Never knew or had a clue, so you're on the floor. Just growin' not known' about your past... Now you're lookin' pretty stupid while you're shakin' your ass.
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Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party.
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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.
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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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Bass! How low can you go? Death row...what a brother know. Once again, back is the incredible, The rhyme animal, the uncannable D! Public Enemy Number One. Five-O said, Freeze! and I got numb. Can I tell 'em that I really never had a gun? But it's the wax that the Terminator X spun.
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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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I think governments are the cancer of civilization.
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