Immortal Technique famous quotes

Those people who kill women, children, and defenseless civilians are about as Muslim as mass murderer Christopher Columbus was a Christian.
-- Immortal Technique

#Christian #Children #People

Maybe we'll stop training our kids to stop looking at someone and automatically seeing them as Black or White or of this religion or that one etc, and instead, as a human being. Maybe we can stop forcing our ideas like, "I don't want them to marry this person because they are of this religion or this color" on them.
-- Immortal Technique

#Kids #Color #Ideas

The purpose of life is a life with a purpose. So I’d rather die for a cause, than live a life that is worthless.
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#Purpose #Causes #Life Is

If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost.
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#Self #Dignity #Lost

True wealth is having your health, and knowledge of self.
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#Self #Wealth #Self Knowledge

It doesn't matter what race you are. It doesn't matter what religion you are. I always tell people: If you want to be a part of hip-hop, you just need to have a heart. You need to have the courage to tell the truth.
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#Heart #Race #People

Hold the person that you love closely if they're next to you The one you love, not the person that'll simply have sex with you Appreciate them to the fullest extent, and then beyond 'Cause you never really know what you got, until it's gone
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#Sex #Appreciate #Gone

You don't have to either choose to save the world or become a sellout. I say to people, "Listen dude, how can you save the world if you can't even save yourself? Why don't you try to affect one person's life who's in your life, and that would be historic."
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#People #Trying #Would Be

King Abdullah has died. A divisive figure in the Middle East. The sad irony is that the USA preached democracy in the face of absolute rule.
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#Kings #Usa #Democracy

If I lend my support to a specific cause, it has to be something that I look over and that I have a complete understanding of and it's not just some extracurricular bullshit.
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#Bullshit #Support #Understanding

You can’t stop a revolution from breathin’, so to beat ‘em they offer people the illusion of freedom.
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#People #Ems #Revolution

Using some economic issues to make one group of people, regardless of race or religion, the scapegoat for all the problems of the country is just the stupidest, and yet, the most creative propaganda scheme that you can come up with.
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#Country #Race #Issues

As much as racism bleeds America, we need to understand that classism is the real issue.
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#Real #America #Issues

It isn't me making money as much as it is me spending my money in a way that I feel is effective. My methodology is to say I'm not just going to throw money at a problem but rather personally invest myself in it.
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#Way #Problem #Making Money

My enemy is not the average white guy, its not the kid down the block or the kids I see on the streets. My enemy is the white I don't see: the people in The white House, the corporate monoply owners. Fake liberal politicians-those are my enemies.
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#Block #Kids #Average

Some artists think every woman is a groupie, and that every dude is a sucker, and I never looked at people like that.
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#Artist #Thinking #People

A man who walks with God, can walk anywhere. Hence, I fear nothing.
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#Men #Fear Nothing #Walking With God

I would love for [Jesus] to come back because I would love for him to face what is happening and to really have some sort of perspective. In that same respect, I'm sure that Prophet Muhammad would be disgusted by what some people use his name to justify.
-- Immortal Technique

#Jesus #Names #People

The mind of a child is where the Revolution begins,
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#Children #Mind #Revolution

I think that learning to read between the lines of traditional media is one way to stay informed, and also realizing that eventually you're going to have to cross-reference all sorts of different information coming from different sources.
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#Thinking #Media #Different

I never tried to be Jay Z or Big Poppa, I'm underground like them dead children buried in Gaza
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#Children #Bigs #Buried

There was a lot of rebelliousness, without focus, in my younger years. And even when people ask me, "Oh you went to prison and you went to college for a couple years?" I'm like "Yeah, I learned more in prison than I think I ever learned in college." That's the sad truth.
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#Couple #College #Thinking

A pretty face can capture my attention but only a beautiful mind can hold it.
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#Beautiful #Mind #Attention

I try to take people at face value and then beyond, taking them out of face value and out of the category of being Black, Latino, Asian, White, Jewish, Muslim or Christian or Atheist, none of that matters to me.
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#Christian #Atheist #White

I'd rather be proud of what I am, rather than desperatly try to be something I'm really not; just to fit in.
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#Trying #Proud #Fit

I hate it when they tell us how far we've came to be; as if our people's history started with slavery.
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#Hate #People #Slavery

I'm not trying to sell pipe dreams to people. I'm not giving them some fake utopia. I'm not telling them it's easy. If it was easy, everyone would do it. But you don't fight the fights you can win, you fight the fights that need fighting. That's the most important part.
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#Dream #Fighting #Winning

Ignorance is venomous and it murders the soul, spreading like a virus, running rampant, out of control.
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#Running #Ignorance #Soul

They [people of Afghanistan] didn't want Al-Qaeda in their country. They didn't appreciate the Taliban taking control. But they really have an incredible amount of dignity. And by that, they are grateful for America's help in ridding them of the Taliban. The average, ordinary person is glad that their daughter can go to school now. There's no public executions, no banning of soccer games. The difference is, they're appreciative, but they don't want any prolonged military presence of the United States there.
-- Immortal Technique

#Soccer #Country #Daughter

Tell 'em the truth and they call you a traitor, Talk to 'em honestly and they call you a hater.
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#Rap #Hip Hop #Ems

The perfect world for me is to find some sort of inner peace. I believe that a man that walks with God can walk anywhere.
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#Believe #Men #Perfect

People who go out and try to be a rebel at night, Try to make up for the fact that they settled in life.
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#Rap #Night #People

Hip-hop is about the human condition; it's about people's lives.
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#People #Hip Hop #Hips

So when the devil wants to dance with you, you better say never, Because the dance with the devil might last you forever.
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#Rap #Hip Hop #Forever

This is the ultimate war of ideas. You're trying to get somebody to change their mind about conservatism, because that's exactly what we're fighting out there. We're fighting an insanely fundamentalist mentality that relies on taking certain things absolutely literally, and they're people on both sides of the conflict doing that. Even now, some people still take the Bible literally, and those are the ones wanting to fight a war against Islam.
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#War #Fighting #Ideas

You can make the future, but it starts with leaving the past.
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#Past #Leaving #Leaving The Past

The 'king of hip hop' is always the poster child for capitalism, no matter who it is.
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#Kings #Children #Hip Hop

The Devil crept into Heaven, God overslept on the 7th, The New World Order was born on September 11.
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#Rap #Order #Heaven

Scary rock n' roll bands had all the devilish imagery. But at the same time, it's not because they were devil worshippers, they were saying that society is run by devils. It was human society that created these things, they become the devils. This is what you worship. This money is what you worship. This idea is what you worship.
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#Running #Rocks #Ideas

The military ain't there for the people's protection, They're just there to protect an investment. That's why people get arrested, electrocuted, molested, Connected streets are infested with those tired of protesting. Traumatized children grown in guerrilla garrisons, 9/11 generations pale in comparison. And you will learn a lesson repeated through history: That no matter what you think, occupation is not victory.
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#Children #Military #Rap

If we can sell out a venue that's just as big as this in Omaha, if we can sell out DePaul in Chicago tomorrow, which looks like it's going to happen for 1100 or 1200 people, then obviously everyone will know that we can affect between 700 to 1000 people at a time in damn near every city in America, then I think that's a good start. It also tells people, and gives them an example, how independent hip-hop is able to do this without gigantic corporate support.
-- Immortal Technique

#Independent #Thinking #America

I put the truth out there, I put the historical facts into Hip Hop to show us how much history repeats itself and that if we truly want to evolve as a human race, we need to stop sticking each other in ridiculous categories.
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#Race #Hip Hop #Historical

Art has to be, you know, trade itself, conform to the old strict guidelines set forth by how it was going to act in the future.
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#Art #Guidelines #Strict

I just want to be remembered as someone who wanted people to think free and wanted people to be free, whether it's at the end of the day, or at the end of the mortal coil.
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#Thinking #People #The End Of The Day

The Government covers their own ***** from things they fail to do to protect its own people from corporations that control the government, which is the reason we don't have checks and balances in this country. They checked how much balance they needed to influence congress and all the other branches of government in some way, shape, or form, and cash is king.
-- Immortal Technique

#Country #Kings #Government

I don't need to put jewels on to make myself feel important. I'd rather drop them for the benefit of less fortunate people. I don't need to put gold on my body, and I'm not criticizing people who do, but for me, I'd rather be around my family and see them be happy because that's worth more to me than gold.
-- Immortal Technique

#Jewels #People #Important

When you talk about revolution, it's very easy to romanticize picking up a gun or marching in the street, but I think before we take any of those actions, violence of course being the last one, we first have to have a revolution of the mind.
-- Immortal Technique

#Gun #Thinking #Mind

Just because I choose to question religion doesn't mean that I'm spitting in God's face; it's the opposite. I'm tired of people spitting in God's face. I'm tired of seeing these divisions over a different type of Christianity, over a different type of Islam.
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#Tired #Mean #Opposites

The average ordinary person, in the worst slums of America, someone who might even hate the law and disagree with the government, they would do something about that [abandoned child]. But in Afghanistan, people hardly have the means to take care of themselves, let alone a random child on the street.
-- Immortal Technique

#Children #Hate #Mean

Your fans can't just pop in whenever they want. I'm not gonna allow someone to just drop over my house whenever they want like, "Hey what's up? I bought your album so what's for dinner?"
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#House #Fans #Albums

The way music reflects real life, the way that painstakingly, over the years, what I have said is really a metaphor for what's happening to America. It used to be about, or tried to be at the very beginning, about what was right. It has stopped being what was right for America; it started being about what was right for companies that are in control.
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#Real #Years #America

If your religion hasn't made you a better person, then it has failed you as a religion.
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#Better Person #Made #Persons

Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian, it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition.
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#Christian #Ambition #Hell

Pessimism is an emotion not a philosophy.
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#Philosophy #Emotion #Pessimism

The problem with always being a conformist is that when you try to change the system from within, it's not you who changes the system; it's the system that will eventually change you.
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#Trying #Problem #Conformist

I love the place that I live, but I hate the people in charge.
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#Hate #People #I Hate

I jerk off inside books, and give life to words, leaving concepts stuck together you've probably never heard
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#Book #Giving #Leaving

Love...doesn't need a complicated metaphor And sometimes nothing needs to be said at all
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#Needs #Sometimes #Complicated

The business of beauty isn't a natural model; It's built to be the opposite of the cultures we topple. These magazines got you caught in a hustle, Cause when you starve yourself, your body doesn't burn fat, it burns muscles.
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#Rap #Opposites #Hip Hop

Using numerology to count the people I sent to heaven, Produces more digits than 22 divided by 7.
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#Rap #People #Hip Hop

You will learn a lesson repeated through history, that no matter what you think, occupation is not victory!
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#Thinking #Victory #Lessons

In a world of regret, sacrifice and hardship, laughter and music are medicine.
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#Laughter #Regret #Sacrifice

I won't trade humanity for patriotism.
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#Humanity #Trade

Write it down and remember that we never gave in, the mind of a child is where the revolution begins, so if the solution has never been to look in yourself, how is it that you expect to find it anywhere else
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#Children #Writing #Mind

Read about the history of the place that we live in and stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children
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#Children #Lying #News

Some people learn from mistakes and don't repeat them, Others try to block the memories and just delete them. But I keep 'em as a reminder they're not killing me, And I thank God for teaching me humility. Son, remember when you fight to be free To see things how they are and not how you like em to be. Cause even when the world is falling on top of me, Pessimism is an emotion, not a philosophy. Knowing what's wrong doesn't imply that you right, And it's another when you suffer to apply it in life. But I'm no rookie... And I'm never gonna make the same mistake twice, pussy.
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#Memories #Mistake #Block

Read between the lines and free your mind
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#Mind #Lines #Between The Lines

I Freestyle my Destiny, It's not written in Pages.
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#Destiny #Pages #My Destiny

Your mind is your weapon. Load your weapon.
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#Mind #Weapons

Reality is nourishment, but people don't believe it, I guess it's hard to stomach the truth like a bulimic.
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#Believe #Rap #Reality

Universal truth is not measured in mass appeal, this is the last time I kneel and pray to the sky, cause almost everything I was ever told was a lie.
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#Lying #Sky #Lasts

My revolution is born out of love for my people, not out of hatred for others.
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#People #Hatred #Revolution

My first Hip Hop concert was at the Apollo at the age of 12. Southpaw's father was interviewing Queen Latifah and Treach as well as many others. The place was so packed no one could move but I got to be backstage with the video equipment and so I saw the show from a great place.
-- Immortal Technique

#Queens #Father #Moving

I hope one of my fans has one of your kids shot: and blames it on acid, prozac, and slipknot.
-- Immortal Technique

#Kids #Fans #Acid