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Portrait of Chuck D

Chuck D

(1960) Radio Personality United States

188 quotes in 899 categories

Chuck D’s words cut through the noise with rhythm and purpose. This collection highlights his sharp observations on society, music, and resistance, embodying the voice of a hip‑hop pioneer and activist.

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Chuck D is a radio personality from the United States, best known for Lyrics of a rap revolutionary.

Quick Facts About Chuck D

Born: August 1, 1960
Nationality: United States
Profession: Radio Personality
Notable works: Lyrics of a rap revolutionary

About Chuck D

Carlton Douglas Ridenhour, known professionally as Chuck D, is an American rapper, best known as the leader and frontman of the hip-hop group Public Enemy, which he co-founded in 1985 with Flavor Flav. Chuck D is also a member of the rock supergroup Prophets of Rage. He has released several solo albums, most notably Autobiography of Mistachuck (1996).

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Chuck D

“Minds are the real estate of the millenium”

Estate

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Music should be some kind of nourishment.

Kind

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I always remain optimistic.

Hope

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Minds are the real estate of the 21st century.

21st century

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“Crucifixon ain't no fiction”

Fiction

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Men have periods; they're called wars.

Men

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Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps

Hero

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Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.

Anoint

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It's not about what you get out but what you put into hip hop as a genre.

Genre

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I tell each artist they have to grow toward a revenue stream.

Art

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If you empty, you can be filled up with anything. It could be water or it could be gasoline.

Empty

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These days you can't see who's in cahoots, Cause now the KKK wears three-piece suits.

Causes

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Money is created by a machine... but you can't really create respect with a machine.

Computers

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The real thing is the heart, you know the heart shouldn't be covered with concrete.

Concrete

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I'm not a U.S. citizen. I mean, I'm an earth-izen. Borderline policies are crap to me.

Borderline

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“sticks and stones may break my bones but words can do permanent damage”

Language

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The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that…

Creating

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I think a good thing that needs to change is that people should be at least fearless about expressin' themselves.

Fearless

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I like Rick Ross as a person. I like Jay-Z and Kanye West as people. But I hate the companies that they…

Company

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I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things.

People

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I'm most passionate about, you know, making everybody understand that we should all have equal access on this earth.

Access

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Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites.

Culture

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The minute I get swelled up about something, something has always brought me back down to earth.

Brought

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Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their…

Bigger

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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…

Adopted

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Maybe we need to look upon technologies and social networks as things that come out of us, not things that lead us.…

Human beings

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I'd rather have a hundred thousand or a million people saying I'm nuts and I'm crazy for my musical choices and what…

Choices

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You can actually take your pain and processes it into some kind of form of art. So I mean, I've easily always…

Able

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I believe that, artistically and culturally, the free radio air should be able to support local artists of whatever genre. Play 40…

Able

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It ain't this big I, little You. Music is to be shared. Music is not a hustle. [Hip hop's become] cultural stripmining…

Bigs

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I don't think a lot of people have been privy to understanding that there's this talent in hip-hop all over the earth…

Being the best

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Why would twenty-six-year-old "teenagers" care about political ramifications if their backs are not up against the wall? But if their backs are…

Care

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I would like to say is that to be truly American and represent American ideals you need to consider yourself a citizen…

Administration

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You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is…

Accepted

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For a long period of time, the media covered rap music and hip hop the same way they cover a lot of…

Bad news

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If you want to speak about different ethnicities and diversity, rap and hip-hop are all over the planet. Every country, from Turkey…

Art

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“Now what is the will of God? That's the big question. You can't say the will of God is to disrespect your…

1990

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We were coming out of the black community with this thing called rap music, which was basically black men yelling at the…

Black

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When music turned into being like candy - what people don't realize is, yes it's candy, but candy has long-term effects if…

Candy

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“I don't like the way our community throws the word around like it's water, because it's a derogatory term. A lot of…

1991

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Chuck D by topic

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