Chuck D Quotes - Page 2

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 think governments are the cancer of civilization.

All I want is peace and love on this planet. Ain't that how God planned it?

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.

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

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

No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game.

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.

Music used to cause revolutions and I'm not seeing much revolution anymore.

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

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.

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

McDonald's offers a king's ransom to any hip-hop artist who is able to put Big Mac into a song. MTV - and more to the point, Viacom - is succeeding in extending a teenage life to twenty-nine or even thirty-one years old. It is about extending this market and removing any intelligent substance in the music.

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 goddamn time. You know the kind of person: You see them everywhere on television but nowhere in front of your face.

Comin' from the school of hard knocks, Some perpetrate...they drink Clorox. Attack the black, cause I know they lack exact The cold facts, and still they try to Xerox.

And when I say it, they get alarmed... 'Cause I'm louder than a bomb.

Truth is truth no matter what I think.

Try to master technology instead of it mastering you.

Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.

With black people, there are 50 Hitlers over the course of history.

Americans are not sharp. You can be sharp in your own area, I guess, but in this world you gotta be conscious of everybody else in the world too. You just can't be drunken with constitution and hear, okay we're gonna do this and then you hear well, we're gonna go kill this guy 'cause he's a terrorist and you keep gettin' it.

Bigger doesn't mean better unless you really understand what bigger is.

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.

Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party.

Rappers should just be able to perform what they create and satisfy the people that like and love them.