Chuck D Quotes

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• Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It's…
• I think governments are the cancer of civilization.
• Rap comes from the humble beginnings of rebelling against the status quo. Now, rappers have become the status quo themselves. You can't rebel against the…
• No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game.
• One side of the street is a Church; across the road is a liquor store. Both of 'em keepin us poor.
• Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps
• Minds are the real estate of the 21st century.
• Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.
• DJ culture always made us aware that the best records were going to come from the small shops
• Being called Black in America is the struggle to keep us moving and breathing over bloody water. Being a Nig**r or [Ni**a] without the context…
• Young people are having a hard time with what's reality and what's fantasy these days...We created discussion. It wasn't to create controversy for sale's sake,…
• The best way to boycott is to build your own
• If I can't change the people around me, I change the people around me.
• The immediacy of the technology of the web allows us, as songwriters, to write something very sharp and quick. That has a lot to do…
• I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things.
• 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 I've said lyrically,…
• There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the…
• 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…
• You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going…
• 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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