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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 actually heard hip-hop before I saw a movie in a movie theater. I heard hip-hop first, at the tender age of seven, so that came first. I didn't see a movie until I was eight. "

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First

Movie Theater

" I always had this imagination about making colorful movies. I use to walk to school and daydream about it. "

" A servant sometimes need to be served. "

" When we was making a song called 'Bring Da Ruckus,' we took the snare, and we put it in an elevator shaft and recorded it. "

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

" Beyond Greek mythology, history just didn't have a strong resonation with me. "

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Mythology

History

" 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. "

" I'm glad Wu-Tang was able to inspire other producers and artists, but I would never want to be erased or removed. "

" I keep all my work and files and kung-fu movies on my laptop because sometimes you travel, and the Internet is slow. "

" Because I have so many brothers and sisters, I think I'm able to have a certain patience. "

" I didn't learn black history in school. I had to go find Malcolm X books. "

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History

Learn

" I'm a big fan of technology; I've been a geek since 1986... and I was spending all my paper money on gadgets. "

" My mom gave me the children stories of the Bible. I memorized that book at the age of nine. "

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

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

" I wrote a big animation scene for 'Iron Fists,' but we couldn't afford all that. "

" A wise man has to always listen to the peers he surrounds around himself. That's why you surround yourself with other smart people. Captain Kirk keep Mr. Spock right beside him. "

" When I made hip-hop, I made hip-hop. I didn't make R&B or make it for the radio. "

" 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. "

" I'm addicted to music. "

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Addicted

Music

" The whole first 100 Wu-Tang songs was made on an ASR-10. "

" One of my illest villains was the Butcher from 'Gangs of New York,' Daniel Day-Lewis. "

" The 'Godfather I' and 'II,' those were real straight movies in my life. At the same time, so is 'Five Deadly Venoms,' if we go into kung-fu movies. "

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Movies

My Life

" With '8 Diagrams,' I just skimmed the surface of musical exploration. "

" You come to my studio, it says 'No photography on premises.' I picked that up from Kanye. We don't need all that. In the old days in the Wu, we didn't allow anybody in the studio, not even women. We didn't start allowing women until five years after our debut. ODB used to get mad. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The way you have to think in chess is good for everyday thinking, really, especially for brothers in the urban community who never take that second look, never take that second thought. "

" When I first heard hip-hop, in 1976, there were maybe only 500 people that could do it. "

" I didn't discover how music and film could work together until Jim Jarmusch had me do 'Ghost Dog.' "

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Dog

Music