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Reflect each day on all you have to be grateful for and you will receive more to be grateful for.
My thing is, the older you get you gotta stand up for what you believe in, and keep bashin' away.
I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it...it said they were suckers.
One side of the street is a Church; across the road is a liquor store. Both of 'em keepin us poor.
Rappers should just be able to perform what they create and satisfy the people that like and love them.
I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things.
You can't take anything with you. So I don't understand this whole psychotic area of greed, I don't get it.
Cause I'm Black and I'm proud I'm ready and hyped plus I'm amped Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps
I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.
I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.
I think a good thing that needs to change is that people should be at least fearless about expressin' themselves.
Excuse us for the news, You might not be amused; But did you know White comes from Black? No need to be confused.
Try to do your best to look people in the eye and talk to them without a gadget being in between you all the time.
People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection.
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.
I'm most passionate about, you know, making everybody understand that we should all have equal access on this earth.
I think traveling the world has helped to keep Public Enemy alive. We've never solely depended on the United States.
I encourage more blacks and people of color to get a passport. That's one way to help put people on an equal platform.
The biggest thing that has happened to hip-hop is the clinging on to the corporation as the all-mighty hub of the music.
Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites.
I know I am judged unfairly by my physical characteristics and ostracized because of that so I say, "Yes, I'm a black man."
My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.
The powers that be are trying to meld, shape, and corral the culture of hip-hop into another speaking voice for the government.
There's nothing worse than a good video and good song, and you see a band and hate them because they can't perform. That's wack.
Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.
I think hip hop should be a living word. And what I mean by the living word is like yo, you gotta have the words that provide life.
Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding don't come out of the microwave. You got to keep moving forward because the evil doesn't sleep.
Getting on the road and driving along a road at night, or even in the daytime and seeing the oceans or whatever, is always liberating.
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.
My work throughout my life is always representative of the time we live in. It's all about keeping it in order and keeping it in gear.
Find like-minded people and try not to be individualized to the point where you try to fight it all and think about it all on your own.
If they can send you to war at 18, maybe it's beneficial for some people to think that most of us gotta go to war for our own existence.
A lot of the post-1977 dancefloor disco sounds had their place at one time, but you can't bring them back unless you bring back a floor.
The truth has no form, you know. It's not like walking around trying to actually ask for favors and to be acknowledged, it is what it is.
So, rather than trying to humbly mix with the rest of the world, we are forcing ourselves upon it. We seem to create conflicts with everyone.
I totally hate when somebody takes a classic and desecrates it. I like Jimmy Page and P. Diddy, but what they did to 'Kashmir' was a debacle.
My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.
Let the voice be the voice of the voiceless and let it come from the world of rap music to keep the stereotype and the peace at the same time.
If you have no soul you can gut it out. You know, like a marionette, you'll just follow what seems to actually give you whatever you ain't got.
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.
If you want to be an artist, truly try to write what you believe, and if you write when you don't believe then you should try to become an actor.
Once you think bigger than yourself then the cause becomes the issue if you think on a higher plain you can come together to work on our problems.
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.
I don't have any exteriors that would actually put me into some kind of different air that would actually intimidate somebody to stay away from me.
I like to drive and I like to travel. When I drive on the open road, it's like sometimes the car turns into a pen and the road is a piece of paper.
I don't believe that everybody is out of some kind of cookie cutter, so the thing that protects me is always being level with myself, even to myself.
Slavery was incredibly prosperous for some people, at that time. It was not a bad business plan, but it was terrible and inhumane. But as a business it worked.
What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.
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.
Try to find like-minded people. Don't choose your friends based on the outside, choose your friends based on your similar views or something that you can learn from.