Chuck D Quotes

Reflect each day on all you have to be grateful for and you will receive more to be grateful for.

If I can't change the people around me, I change the people around me.

Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding don't come out of the microwave. You got to keep moving forward because the evil doesn't sleep.

Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our similarities. Cultural exchange is the ultimate exchange.

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.

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!

Minds are the real estate of the 21st century.

To live a life you love, you must Love the life you live.

The best medicine for pain sometimes is some kind of logic and common sense from older folks. They tell you, "Okay, you're not the only one who actually went through this."

I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.

It's weak to speak and blame somebody else ...When you destroy yourself.

Men have periods; they're called wars.

The best way to boycott is to build your own

When culture is created in boardrooms with a panel of six or seven strategists for the masses to follow, to me that is no different than an aristocracy. It's not created from the people in the middle of the streets, so to speak. It is created from a petri dish for the sake of making money, and it is undermining the longevity of the culture.

You can't master time, but you have to work your hardest to manage it.

Never have so many men treated women like our foes. They call 'em hoes, but they might as well call them foes, 'cause you are totally against the existence of somebody who should live their life as an equal human being. If not, any man knows, it's like we're not equal. You know, women are usually a little better than us.

Share and enjoy the fruits of this planet.

I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it...it said they were suckers.

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.

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 Queen and then become the Queen yourself. I attribute much of the blame to testosterone-male dominance and patriarchy.

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.

The best American is one who considers themselves as a citizen of the world.

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.

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

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.