Chuck D quotes

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people. (Chuck D)
Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites. View quote
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Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that. View quote
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Rappers should just be able to perform what they create and satisfy the people that like and love them. View quote
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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. View quote
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I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from. View quote
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I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope. View quote
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I think governments are the cancer of civilization. View quote
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You can't master time, but you have to work your hardest to manage it. View quote
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I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things. View quote
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Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there. (Chuck D)
Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party. View quote
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There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the past, I'd say, 'Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.' View quote
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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. View quote
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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 own neighborhoods - the sum is bigger than the parts, and the parts will grow. View quote
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I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock. View quote
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Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it. View quote
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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 I've said lyrically, than a million people all raising their hand on the first day. View quote
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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 record for. View quote
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I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality. View quote
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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. (Chuck D)
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 something you're supposed to do. Now, you can't go around bragging, expecting to get props because you voted. That's stupid. View quote
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People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups of all time because they were white. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm a multi-tasker. I was down with that stuff before they invented the term. View quote
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