Du Yun Quotes

I try to use my music to move these people to act.

But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

The difference that a drama group or a cinema club can make to a small village or a town. It opens people up to ideas, potential about themselves that really, in a way, education often fails to. It's a way of drawing a community together.

I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog.

I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.

A person can do a lot of reading and research as I have done. I went to Spain and spent a whole summer there with my family, immersing myself in the culture. But all that isn't really necessary to experience the music.

My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.

Learn to understand the culture of those that you wish to influence.

One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.

Without culture, development falls apart.

Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.

Art and politics must move closer together. Reflection and action must be equally valid in good men if history is not to take one course and art another.

No matter what political cause compels us, we should always feel as though it's being threatened. We should use these causes, whatever they are, to bring people together and get each other excited about our role, so we feel like we can't stop and won't stop.

Literature births activists.

Arianna Huffington is one of the greatest champions of this idea - that anyone can make a difference.

My acting and activism go hand-in-hand, and they really support one another.

Music really matters in politics.

I feel like my place is to connect hip-hop... with the youth, the older, the middle. Just everybody that's listening to me. My place in hip-hop is really to just connect and show positivity. Put my vibe out there.

Education is the tool. Even if we haven't directly instructed a session, I think Wu-Tang has been an instructor of education to anyone who has been a fan, anyone who has supported our movement, whether its been from buying a Wu-Tang CD or coming to see a show.

You have to be a part of the conversation if you want to change the conversation.

If anybody can make a change it's the rappers.

Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

If Atheists are lonely and downtrodden, we have only ourselves to blame. Numerically, we are strong. Let's start punching our weight.

There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics.