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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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Minds are the real estate of the 21st century.
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Share and enjoy the fruits of this planet.
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Oh, America is slipping away from the rest of the consciousness of the planet - slipping away.
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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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You should be a person inside the world with knowledge of your terrain. And if you lock yourself into the 2,000-by-3,000-square-mile, lower-48 box of the United States, you're going to be frustrated by its limitations. You gotta think outside the box.
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My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.
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Today, a young person that doesn't know themselves will totally be sold some other situation. Let's do your avatar. You know? And young people are going out, spending what little they have to try to buy themselves when they don't have themselves, or they feel like they don't have themselves. To me, that's like a damn pimp tragedy.
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No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game.
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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 don't have any exteriors that would actually put me into some kind of different air that would actually intimidate somebody to stay away from me.
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Every time something tries to create respect with a machine it crumbles!
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You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now.
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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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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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They [US Administration] have exploited hip-hop and some of the culture around it - magazines, videos, etc. - to recruit people into the military. The Army says it will give out Hummers, platinum teeth, or whatever to those that actually join.
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If I can't change the people around me, I change the people around me.
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I tell each artist they have to grow toward a revenue stream.
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Burn, Hollywood, burn, I smell a riot goin' on, First they're guilty, now they're gone!
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