Chuck D Quotes

Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.

Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that everybody in my home town was not representative of the way people in the world were raised. And that was what saved me.

The best education I have ever received was through travel.

It's nice to know there's a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I'm not the center of the world - in a good way.

I absolutely do believe that we need to not be so myopic. We ought to throw open widely the windows on the world in order to learn more about it.

You go to Africa, and you see how things are over there. Spiritually, it opens you up.

Travelling, in general, opens your mind to so many different cultures and different ways of thinking and different ways of seeing stuff. I definitely feel like it has an influence on my music to be a bit more broader and a bit more open.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

The more places I go to, the more I realize I understand so little about the world.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

I think well-read people - the world is open to them.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.

He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.

Traveling in Europe made me understand that America has an island mentality: No one exists except us. There's a whole other world out there, but most Americans - all they know is America, the marketing plan.

It's hard to be judgmental once you've been around the world... it's pretty hard to be anything but understanding, and I think it's good for everybody to get out and see someplace other than where you grew up.

When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.

Being at Stanford really opens your eyes to the world that's out there.

I have learned to create from a hybridized point of view. It's an asset - something rather liberating.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

I travel all the time. And as I go around the world, I try to learn a little something and not just take up all the available air.

Everyone can help. We can educate ourselves and our children about other countries and cultures.

If the various groups in America had been less selfish and had permitted different representatives from the groups to travel into foreign countries, and broaden their own scope, and come back and educate the movements they represented, not only would this have made the groups to which they belonged more enlightened and more worldly in the international sense, but it also would have given the independent African states abroad a better understanding of the groups in the United States, and what they stand for, what they represent.