Immortal Technique Quotes
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The way music reflects real life, the way that painstakingly, over the years, what I have said is really a metaphor for what's happening to America. It used to be about, or tried to be at the very beginning, about what was right. It has stopped being what was right for America; it started being about what was right for companies that are in control.
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I don't need to put jewels on to make myself feel important. I'd rather drop them for the benefit of less fortunate people. I don't need to put gold on my body, and I'm not criticizing people who do, but for me, I'd rather be around my family and see them be happy because that's worth more to me than gold.
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If we can sell out a venue that's just as big as this in Omaha, if we can sell out DePaul in Chicago tomorrow, which looks like it's going to happen for 1100 or 1200 people, then obviously everyone will know that we can affect between 700 to 1000 people at a time in damn near every city in America, then I think that's a good start. It also tells people, and gives them an example, how independent hip-hop is able to do this without gigantic corporate support.
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You don't have to either choose to save the world or become a sellout. I say to people, "Listen dude, how can you save the world if you can't even save yourself? Why don't you try to affect one person's life who's in your life, and that would be historic."
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We have to create the ability to police our own communities instead of leaving it in the hands of a system that has never understood us, tried to marginalize and politically assassinate all of our leaders whenever they came to challenge the status quo.
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when God said "let there be light" I turned it the f-k off.
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This is the ultimate war of ideas. You're trying to get somebody to change their mind about conservatism, because that's exactly what we're fighting out there. We're fighting an insanely fundamentalist mentality that relies on taking certain things absolutely literally, and they're people on both sides of the conflict doing that. Even now, some people still take the Bible literally, and those are the ones wanting to fight a war against Islam.
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My enemy is not the average white guy, its not the kid down the block or the kids I see on the streets. My enemy is the white I don't see: the people in The white House, the corporate monoply owners. Fake liberal politicians-those are my enemies.
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I'm baptized by America and covered in leeches.
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Hip-hop is about the human condition; it's about people's lives.
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The average ordinary person, in the worst slums of America, someone who might even hate the law and disagree with the government, they would do something about that [abandoned child]. But in Afghanistan, people hardly have the means to take care of themselves, let alone a random child on the street.
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I try to take people at face value and then beyond, taking them out of face value and out of the category of being Black, Latino, Asian, White, Jewish, Muslim or Christian or Atheist, none of that matters to me.
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People who have a conservative viewpoint both religiously and politically and they fear that the world is going to be thrown into perpetual communism.
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Art has to be, you know, trade itself, conform to the old strict guidelines set forth by how it was going to act in the future.
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I won't trade humanity for patriotism.
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Reality is nourishment, but people don't believe it, I guess it's hard to stomach the truth like a bulimic.
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If I lend my support to a specific cause, it has to be something that I look over and that I have a complete understanding of and it's not just some extracurricular bullshit.
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Some artists think every woman is a groupie, and that every dude is a sucker, and I never looked at people like that.
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I see the world for what it is, beyond the white and the black.
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I'd rather be proud of what I am, rather than desperatly try to be something I'm really not; just to fit in.
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It isn't me making money as much as it is me spending my money in a way that I feel is effective. My methodology is to say I'm not just going to throw money at a problem but rather personally invest myself in it.
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Devils used to be God's angels that fell from the top. There is no diversity cos we're burnin in the melting pot.
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When you talk about revolution, it's very easy to romanticize picking up a gun or marching in the street, but I think before we take any of those actions, violence of course being the last one, we first have to have a revolution of the mind.
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Working your whole life wondering where the day went, the subway stays packed like a multicultural slaveship.
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Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian, it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition.
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I feel my body weakening but my spirit is fine, ready to go to war with devils at the drop of a dime
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We're rhyming; we're carrying the banner representing hardcore hip-hop to the death.
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Using numerology to count the people I sent to heaven, Produces more digits than 22 divided by 7.
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The mind of a child is where the Revolution begins.
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They [people of Afghanistan] didn't want Al-Qaeda in their country. They didn't appreciate the Taliban taking control. But they really have an incredible amount of dignity. And by that, they are grateful for America's help in ridding them of the Taliban. The average, ordinary person is glad that their daughter can go to school now. There's no public executions, no banning of soccer games. The difference is, they're appreciative, but they don't want any prolonged military presence of the United States there.
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