Chance The Rapper Quotes
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I want to travel overseas and help out people all over the world.
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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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My parents are super cheap.
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My parents always wanted me to go to college.
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I didn't know love until I had my daughter. I didn't know its bounds.
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I think that's always the goal of art, is to make people ask themselves questions.
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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 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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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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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 like the fact that some of your favorite Broadway musicals are not made into movies.
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I'm definitely tired of playing 'Acid Rap.' I'm definitely tired of playing 'Juice.'
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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 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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I've always been able to defend Kanye.
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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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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'm a big Rick Ross fan, and I think everybody knows I'm a big Kanye fan.
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I think I always knew I wasn't gonna have a regular job.
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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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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.
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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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God and my dad gave me the gift of gab. I know how to finagle.