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The problem with always being a conformist is that when you try to change the system from within, it's not you who changes the system it's the system that will eventually change you.
Immortal Technique
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Immortal Technique
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: March 31
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City of the Kings
Felipe Andres Coronel
Felipe Coronel
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I try to take people at face value and then beyond, taking them out of face value and out of the category of being Black, Latino, Asian, White, Jewish, Muslim or Christian or Atheist, none of that matters to me.
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Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian, it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition.
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Working your whole life wondering where the day went, the subway stays packed like a multicultural slaveship.
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Using some economic issues to make one group of people, regardless of race or religion, the scapegoat for all the problems of the country is just the stupidest, and yet, the most creative propaganda scheme that you can come up with.
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Reality is nourishment, but people don't believe it, I guess it's hard to stomach the truth like a bulimic.
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I jerk off inside books, and give life to words, leaving concepts stuck together you've probably never heard
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I feel my body weakening but my spirit is fine, ready to go to war with devils at the drop of a dime
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I have a strong army I keep with me and we don't go out there looking for problems. A lot of people have this perception... but I don't have a superiority complex about me because I'm from New York or because I'm Peruvian/Black. I think some people get caught up in that stuff.
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I would love for [Jesus] to come back because I would love for him to face what is happening and to really have some sort of perspective. In that same respect, I'm sure that Prophet Muhammad would be disgusted by what some people use his name to justify.
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We're more Christian than the Pope. And, I mean, that's not our religion. We pray to the Gods of our conquerors... all black and brown people.
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You don't have to either choose to save the world or become a sellout. I say to people, Listen dude, how can you save the world if you can't even save yourself? Why don't you try to affect one person's life who's in your life, and that would be historic.
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Devils used to be God's angels that fell from the top. There is no diversity cos we're burnin in the melting pot.
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The kingdoms of Africa and Mesopotamia, machine gunning your body with depleted uranium, this is the age of microchips and titanium, the dark side of the moon, and contact with aliens.
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I'm not trying to sell pipe dreams to people. I'm not giving them some fake utopia. I'm not telling them it's easy. If it was easy, everyone would do it. But you don't fight the fights you can win, you fight the fights that need fighting. That's the most important part.
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