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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.

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Immortal Technique
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: March 31
Musician
Rapper
Singer
City of the Kings
Felipe Andres Coronel
Felipe Coronel
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System
Within
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Trying
Always
Conformist
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Changing the course of destiny, so I'm strapped with weaponry cause the government don't give a f-k about protecting me.
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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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Universal truth is not measured in mass appeal.
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I spend a lot of time out there. I've got a lot of family that lives in Inglewood and surrounding areas. So I'm right in the hood, every time I go there I go see my peoples. I rep real hard for the people that I see that are the counterparts of what I'm trying to do out here, out there.
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I Freestyle my Destiny, It's not written in Pages.
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In a world of regret, sacrifice and hardship, laughter and music are medicine.
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I'll leave you fulla clips like the moon blockin' the sun.
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Pharoahe Monch is a long time supporter of my music and I'm a long time supporter of his music so when we met each other it was almost like a natural occurrence.I met him before a few years earlier and we were just politicking with each other and we had a conversation about possibly doing something but our schedules have always been in conflict.
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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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It's not like America's view of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle is going to change. There are some things that are going to change and some things that are not going to change.
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The 'king of hip hop' is always the poster child for capitalism, no matter who it is.
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Read about the history of the place that we live in and stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children
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Ignorance is venomous and it murders the soul, spreading like a virus, running rampant, out of control.
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The mind of a child is where the Revolution begins.
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A man who walks with God, can walk anywhere. Hence, I fear nothing.
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Art has to be, you know, trade itself, conform to the old strict guidelines set forth by how it was going to act in the future.
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Read between the lines and free your mind
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Doubt that there could ever be...a more wicked MC. 'Cuz AIDS infested child molesters aren't sicker than me.
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I think that learning to read between the lines of traditional media is one way to stay informed, and also realizing that eventually you're going to have to cross-reference all sorts of different information coming from different sources.
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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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