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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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Chuck D
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 1
Composer
Journalist
Musician
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New York City
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Carlton Douglas Ridenhour
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I'm recording freely, and if I make a song, I release it immediately, so I'm more likely to believe in one song at a time as opposed to albums.
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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.
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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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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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We don't see the people who are doing real things getting enough props. We often see politicians who are everywhere but nowhere at the same goddamn time. You know the kind of person: You see them everywhere on television but nowhere in front of your face.
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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.
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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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When you travel the world, you have to watch and you have to listen. We're not going to come in to Ireland without an understanding that there's a history that's very sensitive.
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Share and enjoy the fruits of this planet.
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As a late teenager, the punk movement pushed me further. In particular, the Clash, which happened to leak through the time of disco, showed me that there was this cross-cultural sound that could cut across genres and audiences. Like punk was to disco, rap music was a rebellion against R&B, which had adopted disco and made it worse.
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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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Rappers should just be able to perform what they create and satisfy the people that like and love them.
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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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I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things.
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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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Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!
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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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I think traveling the world has helped to keep Public Enemy alive. We've never solely depended on the United States.
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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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No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game.
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