Chance The Rapper Quotes
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I hate eating vegetables. The only vegetables I eat are lettuce on a burger.
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My parents are super cheap.
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There's always been a quiet conversation and joke that if you're not hard, if you're not from impoverished neighborhoods, if you're not certain constructs of a black stereotype, then you not black.
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I feel like, at a certain point in life, I'd like to be the type of man that gets married and has more serious relationships.
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The idea of 'talking white,' a lot of people grew up around that, just the idea that if you speak with proper diction and come off as educated that it's not black and that it's actually anti-black and should be considered only something that white people would do.
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I just get sick very easily.
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I like the fact that some of your favorite Broadway musicals are not made into movies.
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That's what I've always wanted to do - work with my favorite writers and make something from scratch with them that we can feel like didn't exist before we came in the room.
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I didn't know love until I had my daughter. I didn't know its bounds.
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My come-out record, '10 Day,' was the thing people were supposed to hear and figure out 'he's good' or 'he's not good.' 'Acid Rap' is the comeback tape, and it asks way bigger and better questions than, 'Is he good at rapping?'
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I'm definitely tired of playing 'Acid Rap.' I'm definitely tired of playing 'Juice.'
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I don't think I really knew I was going to be a rapper until sixth grade. Even then, it was still kind of - I was in sixth grade. I was always saying I was going to become a rapper.
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I want to be more involved outside just my community of Chicago.
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I think the only thing that's really going to make a change in terms of how we feel as citizens in terms of safety and our relationship with the police is if we start seeing more federal indictments, arrests, and convictions of police officers.
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I think I always knew I wasn't gonna have a regular job.
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There's a larger conversation we need to have about the role of police officers, their relationship to the people as enemy or executioner, when they're not supposed to be either.
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I think there's a lot of taboos in hip-hop that people try and stay away from. I think a big one is, people are afraid to speak about God to a certain extent, and I think if you're not free to speak about God, then you're not free.
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The problem is that my generation was pacified into believing that racism existed only in our history books.
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I think when you're in my position as an artist, I can say what I want and talk about the issues that matter.
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I'm a big Rick Ross fan, and I think everybody knows I'm a big Kanye fan.
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I've always been able to defend Kanye.
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I can't gain anything off of anyone else not succeeding.
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Colorism and racism don't stop when you're a musician or when you have wealth or when you're in any given position.
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Where he tells you exactly how he views the world - just very straight Kanye, honesty that definitely gets your creativity and strong opinions out on the floor. I think it helped me find myself.