Chuck D. Thinking Quotations

I agree with that. I think you will see us recasting some of our thinking to look at longer term things.

I was actually thinking of going online after we got out of (the selection show). But I know that if we have good defense, we'll have a chance to win that ballgame.

My biggest concern is people thinking the humidity has gone back up, so don't worry about anything -- I'm saying you're wrong. You're really wrong.

I think governments are the cancer of civilization.

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

I think traveling the world has helped to keep Public Enemy alive. We've never solely depended on the United States.

For a long period of time, the media covered rap music and hip hop the same way they cover a lot of black people, people of color, you know, the bad news happens to be news. They used to have these little stupid colloquialisms that pop up like, "You know what? No news is bad news!" They trick the masses into thinking that any news is great for you. And I just think that's a piece of crap.

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.

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.

I think that revolution means change. And if somebody feels like there's nothing wrong, everything's great even when it ain't, why would they ask for a revolution? Just stick the tubes into me and just pump away.

When somebody greedily comes along and thinks that they gonna snatch everything, and you have so many people that have not, the passion that drives me is trying to make them understand that they have to share. So, my art reflects that; the whole reason I do what I do reflects that.

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.

I'm envious of the way that electronic dance music has organised itself. It has been able to understand what it ain't rather than what it is. And I think that slipped away from hip-hop as soon as the DJs lost the majority of the say so in the direction of the music.

I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality.

I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.

Truth is truth no matter what I think.

I'm not a firm believer of "mo' money mo' problems" - I think that's stupid. I think it's that problems are already there that can be exacerbated by more things you don't understand.

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.

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.

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

I think the problem for the future generations is a lot of people ain't takin' the time to look for them and give them their voice, so therefore for their voice to be heard, they gotta bang more pots on the ceiling, so to speak; they gotta do crazy things just to get recognized. I just feel that whenever you don't give a generation some kind of voice, then expect side effects.

As the primary group responsible for student rights, I don't understand why we've been cut out of the table. It appears they're trying to avoid our involvement, thinking we're too extreme.