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Find like-minded people and try not to be individualized to the point where you try to fight it all and think about it all on your own.

Chuck D

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Chuck D
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 1
Composer
Journalist
Musician
Radio Personality
Rapper
Record Producer
Singer
Television Producer
Writer
New York City
New York
Carlton Douglas Ridenhour
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Think
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Individualized
Like
Minded
People
Fight
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We didn't invent music, so it's been here for a reason, and it has powers for a reason. So we should pay attention to it, because we might not know the clear answers but we should at least acknowledge that it is something there. To not be playin around with it.
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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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I'm a multi-tasker. I was down with that stuff before they invented the term.
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No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game.
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Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!
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Bigger doesn't mean better unless you really understand what bigger is.
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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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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 always remain optimistic. There are three levels of music production: the majors, indies, and what I call inties, music distributed via the Internet. The Internet is one area that I have used pretty effectively to break free of corporate control.
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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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Share and enjoy the fruits of this planet.
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I want to always move forward with everything I am doing. So, I do the radio show, speak at universities and other social institutions all around the world, appear on TV, and continue to create music all in the hope to keep the struggle alive.
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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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My advice to young people is ask older people questions and don't be afraid.
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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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Rap comes from the humble beginnings of rebelling against the status quo. Now, rappers have become the status quo themselves. You can't rebel against the Queen and then become the Queen yourself. I attribute much of the blame to testosterone-male dominance and patriarchy.
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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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Corporations have steered the industry into what it wants, and a lot of times they will make artists record what it wants or to make songs talk to who they want to talk to. But sometimes the heart and the head have to be able to talk and deal with a situation that's evident.
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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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All I want is peace and love on this planet. Ain't that how God planned it?
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