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" Everybody wants to be a good fighter. "
Rza
Good
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" I could never be a control freak. If Wu-Tang is a dictatorship, how does every Wu-Tang member have their own contract, their own career, and have put out more albums without me than they've done with me? "
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" I've been vegan for over 20 years, but I started as a vegetarian and grew into veganism in between. "
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" I didn't learn black history in school. I had to go find Malcolm X books. "
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" Twenty percent of my records, you'll find a loop, like two or three loops per album out of 13 or 15 songs. I'd rather keep it like that. "
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" I've always believed food, like music, has the power to change our day and even shape our world. "
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" I live a very satisfying life. Not because I've made a few dollars, but because I have a wife who loves me and children who wait for me to come home. And that is beautiful. I think that's the American dream: to be at peace at home. "
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" 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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" I've helped save so many families with my music and inspire so many people. "
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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. "
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" As I grew older and got into the late teens and early 20s, I wanted to be a voice of the people. You know, getting locked up all the time and going through so much oppression and seeing it all around myself, I wanted to be a voice for it. "
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" I love Paul Simon... his lyrics. "
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" Every time I make a new album, I get better and better. "
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" I became a vegetarian in 1995. I had some fried chicken, and my teeth hit the bone. My mind said, 'Dead bird, dead bird.' It didn't feel right, so I stopped. I kept eating fish until one day, in 1997, the chef brought my ginger-fried snapper with the head still on it. "
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" Art - the beautiful thing about art, from my standpoint, is that it has no discrimination. "
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" Beyond Greek mythology, history just didn't have a strong resonation with me. "
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History
" I didn't discover how music and film could work together until Jim Jarmusch had me do 'Ghost Dog.' "
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" I always had this imagination about making colorful movies. I use to walk to school and daydream about it. "
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" I'm me, and the me that's me is me and is going to continue to be me, and it's always reaching and growing. "
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" When I made hip-hop, I made hip-hop. I didn't make R&B or make it for the radio. "
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" 'Rainy Dayz' and 'Glaciers of Ice,' those two songs - I mean, I just love those songs. "
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Two
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" I got a bad habit of creating. "
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Habit
Got
Bad
" I would not have one turntable if my brother didn't buy the turntable. I was the dreamer; he was the doer. "
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Brother
Buy
Doer
" If you take 'Nothin' But a G Thang' by Dr Dre, that could also be an R&B record. 'Bonita Applebum' by A Tribe Called Quest could even be a jazz record. 'Bring Da Ruckus,' you gotta call it hip-hop. "
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" Parenting is something that I got early, because when you grow up without a father being there, and you see a single mother struggle to feed the kids, you do not want to put your own blood through that. "
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" I don't have the same respect for time as most people. I take that extra day to think about it. "
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" I wrote a big animation scene for 'Iron Fists,' but we couldn't afford all that. "
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" The whole first 100 Wu-Tang songs was made on an ASR-10. "
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" You don't 'practice' martial arts; it's more like a way of life. "
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" I thought about doing '36 Chambers' on Broadway. "
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" When I was eight or nine years old, my older cousin took me to the St. George Theatre on Staten Island to see a Bruce Lee movie and a Jim Kelly movie. Those were my first martial-arts films, and I fell in love with the genre back then. "
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