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I would say my flow is Aboriginal. Look at my face, nose, lips, and eyes. - KRS-One
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No one ever really talks about the punk-rock involvement in hip-hop, which influenced Afrika Bambaata. - KRS-One
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When rap music needed to have a teacher, I became it. - KRS-One
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Hip Hop is an idea. It is the pursuit of one's authentic being through the arts. It is not a physical thing; it is an attitude - even an aptitude. - KRS-One
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Hate is indeed self-destructive, and this is what real Hip Hop must avoid at all cost. - KRS-One
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There's no distinction. A teacher is a preacher. The teachers in public schools are preachers, and the preachers in church are teachers. - KRS-One
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Even with so many artists using auto-tune, there's still a growing group of artists rising up and going in the opposite direction, making music that's real and fresh. And those cats are getting back to the basics without auto-tune. And a lot of those cats are packing out venues without getting played on the radio! - KRS-One
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This is the problem with the United States: there's no leadership. A leader would say, 'Police brutality is an oxymoron. There are no brutal police. The minute you become brutal you're no longer police.' So, what, we're not dealing with police. We're dealing with a federally authorized gang. - KRS-One
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Educate yourself, because this society is geared to have us hate each other. The longer we hate each other, the more we can't come together as humanity and look at the knuckleheads screwing it up for everybody. - KRS-One
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High respect goes out to our mothers, our single mothers. This is why today the real community uplifts femininity and holds womanhood above, not equal to, masculinity. - KRS-One
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The only time you had blacks, whites, and Latinos jamming together was in hip-hop. It's an unsung history. - KRS-One
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The single most important lesson I learned is that black people are the cause of black people's demise. - KRS-One
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I have to put a business model together because certain businesses are approaching me as a legend, as if I'm on my way out. Same goes for the way I get presented on the VH1 Hip Hop Honors and BET. I get lifetime achievement awards because of who I am and what I've done, but they want to put me in a place, as if I'm on my way out. - KRS-One
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I kind of backed into rap music. I thought I was going to do comic books or graphic art. - KRS-One
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The Temple of HipHop has declared HipHop its own religion. We believe HipHop is divine. HipHop proves the existence of God. - KRS-One
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It's always baffled me why BET looks the way it does. This is Black Entertainment Television. Why are we up there, then, looking like idiots? It's because black people are marketing black people like that. - KRS-One
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You can never be too old for hip-hop. - KRS-One
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Everything God wants you to know is already written in your heart. - KRS-One
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I'm here to inspire young people to be part of the most magnificent culture on earth: hip-hop. - KRS-One
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Hip-hop is not about crime. Hip-hop is not about being a gangster. - KRS-One
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I came from the heart of the ghetto - there ain't no suburbia in me. - KRS-One
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The truth is nobody was a Muslim until Public Enemy came out. Then, everybody was Muslim this and Muslim that. It's a bandwagon thing. Islam is a way of life... it's a religion. It's not just something you put on a record. - KRS-One
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When we say, 'Look, Donald Trump was a friend to hip hop back in the day; so was Bill Clinton,' It doesn't mean that because he was a friend to hip hop back in the day, that the same Bill Clinton wasn't at the lead of this mass incarceration of African Americans today. - KRS-One
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Illiteracy causes violence. If you don't have enough words in your vocabulary, you can't even seek your way out of a situation. - KRS-One
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I think music should be free. I think all communication should be free. I think people should respect artists, and there should be a certain respect for artists who give their music away for free. - KRS-One
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Where I go, rap goes. Rap is like my dog; it's like my little pet. And where I go, I lead my little pet with me. - KRS-One
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There is no forgiveness, justice, or healing on any level when hate is involved. - KRS-One
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