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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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Radio Personality
Rapper
Record Producer
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Television Producer
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New York City
New York
Carlton Douglas Ridenhour
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Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!
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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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DJ culture always made us aware that the best records were going to come from the small shops
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The best American is one who considers themselves as a citizen of the world.
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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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So, rather than trying to humbly mix with the rest of the world, we are forcing ourselves upon it. We seem to create conflicts with everyone.
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You know, it's nothin' quick overnight. If anything happens to you quick, you need to start questioning that. You know, you hear young people go, aw, I'm gonna blow up. You gonna blow up but with a controlled explosion. Don't just blow up all over the place.
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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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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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I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things.
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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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What made me want to become a recording artist I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.
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To live a life you love, you must Love the life you live.
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Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it's just posturing. Somebody who claims to speak for the 'hood don't need no private jet.
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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 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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Excuse us for the news, You might not be amused But did you know White comes from Black? No need to be confused.
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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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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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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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