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Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary, Vol. 1 QUOTES

1 " Now what is the will of God? That's the big question. You can't say the will of God is to disrespect your fellow man. You can't say the will of God is to disrespect His creations, and you can't say the will of God is to disrespect the planet that you live on. You can say you're anything [any religion], but if your disrespect comes in any of those three categories, you're not anything, you're whack. I think the principles of religion start from there. Then you get into man's interpretation and bookology. "

― Chuck D , Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary, Vol. 1

2 " The United States is like one big jail for Black people, because we're locked into a mentality and a mindset that limits our potential. It has us against us. "

― Chuck D , Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary, Vol. 1

3 " I don't like the way our community throws the word around like it's water, because it's a derogatory term. A lot of times people come up to me and say, "What's up my nigger?" I'll respond, "Nah, wait a minute. What?" "Oh, oh, what's up my brother?" Sometimes you have to check people, because if it gets loose with us then white people will start to use it. I know a bunch of white people that started to get lax so I had to check them. Some black people were afraid to check them because they thought it was cool. You can never turn that word around and make it cool Nigger is just derogatory, it's wrong, and it's a fucked up term. It's not a word of love, Yo, what's up my nigger?" Fuck that. You can't turn the word puss around. Go around and say, "What's up pussy" to a brother. He'll try to kill you. "What's up dickhead?" You can't turn that around, so you can't turn nigger around as hard as you try. "

― Chuck D , Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary, Vol. 1

4 " Assimilation and melting into the American pot has always been easier [for white people]. It's very hard for blackfolk to melt into the pot. When we melt into the pot we usually become charred crust at the bottom. We have to be able to persevere by different tactics and methods. "

― Chuck D , Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary, Vol. 1

5 " What we need is awareness,
we can't get careless.
You say, What is this?
My beloved, let's get down to business.
Mental self defensive fitness.
Yo, bum rush the show.
You gotta fight for what you know
to make everybody see,
in order to fight the powers that be.
FIGHT THE POWER

- Lyrics, Public Enemy "

― Chuck D , Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary, Vol. 1