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" 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. "
Rza
Child
Love
Man
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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. "
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Me
Hip-Hop
Structure
" Wisdom is important in every man's life. "
Rza
Every
Important
Life
" I love the Bee Gees, and I love Barry Gibb and Andy Gibb. I listen to them almost every day. "
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Love
Listen
" I love W.C. Fields. I can watch all the Laurel & Hardys. "
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Love
Fields
Watch
" One of my illest villains was the Butcher from 'Gangs of New York,' Daniel Day-Lewis. "
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Gangs
New York
New
" The history of black America was from slavery, oppression, civil rights, and you felt kind of isolated as an entity in our country. "
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Black
Slavery
You
" Everybody wants to be a good fighter. "
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Good
Fighter
Wants
" The black community has for a long time been a part of the Hollywood community, and of course we would love to have a more proportionate ratio of films that tell our stories. "
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Long
Time
Tell
" I didn't learn black history in school. I had to go find Malcolm X books. "
Rza
Go
History
Learn
" I have a special style of frying tofu that even the most carnivorous meat-and-potatoes eaters enjoy. "
Rza
Style
Special
Most
" I always had this imagination about making colorful movies. I use to walk to school and daydream about it. "
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Movies
Use
Imagination
" I tell my sons, I say, if you're going somewhere, you don't have to wear a hoodie - we live in New York, so a hoodie and all that is all good. But sometimes, you know, button up your shirt. Clean up. "
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Live
You
Say
" The whole first 100 Wu-Tang songs was made on an ASR-10. "
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Made
First
Songs
" 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. "
Rza
Two
Like
Keep
" 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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Parenting
Struggle
You
" I think exclusivity is important in life. When you look at a hot pair of Jordans, not everybody got them - it's a limited run. You look at guitars. When Gibson made the robot guitar, it was a limited run. "
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Life
Guitar
Look
" I didn't discover how music and film could work together until Jim Jarmusch had me do 'Ghost Dog.' "
Rza
Dog
Me
Music
" I have to make beats every day. Wherever I go, I got a keyboard waiting for me. "
Rza
Waiting
Got
Day
" Directing is such a high. It's the hardest job ever, but I really love doing it. "
Rza
Really
Hardest
High
" I'm focused on creating art and whichever outlet it can get out in. "
Rza
Creating
Art
Focused
" I have love for the entertainment side of the world. "
Rza
Side
World
Love
" The spaghetti Western genre is definitely one of favorites. "
Rza
Genre
Favorites
Western
" I'm glad Wu-Tang was able to inspire other producers and artists, but I would never want to be erased or removed. "
Rza
Want
Other
Never
" So I was about 19 when I got my first SP-1200, and on that SP-1200, I made 'Bring The Pain' and a few other classic Wu joints. "
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Bring
Classic
Pain
" I was definitely a big Run-DMC fan. "
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Definitely
Big
Fan
" With '8 Diagrams,' I just skimmed the surface of musical exploration. "
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Musical
Exploration
Just
" 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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Naive
One Thing
Though
" I've always believed food, like music, has the power to change our day and even shape our world. "
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World
Change
Day
" A lot of people don't know this about Wu-Tang, it started from a focused mind. I was given total autonomy to do whatever I want with them... They agreed, to me, to be a dictator for five years. And in those five years, it's considered some of our best work. "
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Work
Best
Know
" The influence of the Shaw Brothers films on my work has been profound. In addition to the richness of Asian culture, we at Wu-Tang were fascinated with the struggles between the oppressed Chinese villagers and the repressive Manchu authority and how it mirrored our own experiences growing up as black kids in America's inner cities. "
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Own
Growing Up
Work