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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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Chuck D
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 1
Composer
Journalist
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New York City
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Carlton Douglas Ridenhour
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The biggest thing that has happened to hip-hop is the clinging on to the corporation as the all-mighty hub of the music.
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When somebody greedily comes along and thinks that they gonna snatch everything, and you have so many people that have not, the passion that drives me is trying to make them understand that they have to share. So, my art reflects that the whole reason I do what I do reflects that.
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Minds are the real estate of the 21st century.
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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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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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There's people who feel that, Well, if I could profit off of sellin' sex to an eleven-year-old kid that comes through some kind of virtual portal, then I'm not really doin' it in actuality. I'm just kind of co-signing or fostering it, 'cause it can't be attached to me. I'm like, Yes it can, 'cause people are livin' through their avatar.
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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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In the past, people were going to record stores and buying albums or CDs. And the label was exposing their artist as much as possible and maybe getting them picked up by a major. Now I tell people to cut a good tune and have it up in the marketplace the next day. You better be prepared to give it away, and people will come pay to see you.
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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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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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Bigger doesn't mean better unless you really understand what bigger is.
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I wanna go to the clubs and actually have a good time too, but at the same time, when the party's over, I have to go back to the real world and try to figure out who I am.
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You're always going to sound like yourself, but you can make really strong attempts to keep some similarities, but move away from what you did before for popularity's sake.
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I think governments are the cancer of civilization.
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Let the voice be the voice of the voiceless and let it come from the world of rap music to keep the stereotype and the peace at the same time.
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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 totally hate when somebody takes a classic and desecrates it. I like Jimmy Page and P. Diddy, but what they did to 'Kashmir' was a debacle.
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Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.
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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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