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" Being black in America - especially as I was growing up - the feeling of oppression, the feeling of being outcast, the feeling of not having a voice was part of my life. "

Rza

My Life

Life

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" To me, Wu-Tang is beyond Wu-Tang Clan... It's just like, hip-hop is beyond Grandmaster Flash, but Grandmaster Flash was one of the first guys to hit those turntables like that. The same thing with Wu-Tang. You'll see the difference in hip-hop from the moment we came in to before we came in. We changed it. We changed the whole structure. "

Rza

Hip-Hop

Structure

" If I'm a cop, and every time I see a young black youth - whether I watch them on TV, movies, or just see them hanging out - and they're not looking properly dressed, properly refined, you know, carrying himself, conducting himself proper hours of the day - things that a man does - you're going to have a certain fear and stereotype of them. "

" I have to make beats every day. Wherever I go, I got a keyboard waiting for me. "

" You don't 'practice' martial arts; it's more like a way of life. "

" Method Man is a rough, rugged street dude, but all the girls love him. "

" I'm not the first guy to make a record or to make hip-hop, but I did it differently. "

" When you do something in music and see it happen again in the next generation, you know you're on the right wave length. "

" I thought that Wu-Tang was the best sword style - the best sword-style of martial arts. And the tongue is like a sword. And so I say that we have the best lyrics, so, therefore, we are the Wu-Tang Clan. "

" If you let a man that you love or anybody - man, woman or child that you love - sit there and destroy themselves in front of you, you're neglecting them. "

" When you prepare for something, it's like jumping into cold water, but you're prepared. You jump in. And you start swimming, or if you don't swim, you drown. "

" Growing up, all of my friends would set their schedules to the showing of kung fu movies on TV. "

" I was writing lyrics since I was nine years old, so by age 15, I was feeling pretty confident about my talent. "

" I would not have one turntable if my brother didn't buy the turntable. I was the dreamer; he was the doer. "

" While a lot of hip-hop was inspired by jazz or James Brown samples and was made to be played live in the clubs, I made hip-hop that was made for MCs to eat the mic up. It was an aggressive form of hip-hop. It was made just for hip-hop. It's not made to sing or dance to, though you can if you want. "

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" The history of black America was from slavery, oppression, civil rights, and you felt kind of isolated as an entity in our country. "

" Growing up in New York, there are a lot of tenement buildings and a lot of projects. You don't leave your projects too much. The laundry's there. The grocery store is there. Everything takes place right there. When I got knowledge of myself and thought about moving around the city, hip-hop was something that helped me. "

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City

Knowledge

" I'm focused on creating art and whichever outlet it can get out in. "

" As a kid, I was naive. One thing I did have a dream of, though: I had a dream I would make a kung-fu movie. "

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" Wu-Tang Clan's first album, '36 Chambers,' there wasn't a lot of money given to make that album. "

" Directing is such a high. It's the hardest job ever, but I really love doing it. "