My mother went to university, ...

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.
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.
 Chuck D

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

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I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality.
 Chuck D
You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much. Number one: They're trying to please whoever signed them to a contract. Number two: They're trying to appease a gigantic audience and they get this false magnification of love. I came from a thing which nowadays would be the exception to the rule. I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from. Which made me look at everything else as procedure.
 Chuck D
Minds are the real estate of the 21st century.
 Chuck D
I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.
 Chuck D
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.
 Chuck D