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I don't believe that everybody is out of some kind of cookie cutter, so the thing that protects me is always being level with myself, even to myself.

Chuck D

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Chuck D
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 1
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Carlton Douglas Ridenhour
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I let go usually by talking to many people in different areas, in different realms of life that make me look at what I'm dealing with as being small fries stuff, you know?
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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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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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No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game.
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As black people we were out to further our equality. I don't pay attention to the controversial connotations put on by media and the undermining labels they place on us. We pay attention to what our community situation is and what we need.
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The best American is one who considers themselves as a citizen of the world.
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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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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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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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DJ culture always made us aware that the best records were going to come from the small shops
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Oh, America is slipping away from the rest of the consciousness of the planet - slipping away.
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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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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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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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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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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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Minds are the real estate of the 21st century.
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Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party.
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Comin' from the school of hard knocks, Some perpetrate...they drink Clorox. Attack the black, cause I know they lack exact The cold facts, and still they try to Xerox.
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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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