1. “Power always becomes consolidated back into the hands of very few people… whether they be an economic aristocracy, a royalty, a monarchy which is the most concentrated form of oligarchy where it depends on one King who is ordained supposedly by God to rule.” – Immortal Technique
2. “In a world of regret, sacrifice and hardship, laughter and music are medicine.” – Immortal Technique
3. “If your religion hasn’t made you a better person, then it has failed you as a religion.” – Immortal Technique
4. “As much as racism bleeds America, we need to understand that classism is the real issue.” – Immortal Technique
5. “I’m not trying to sell pipe dreams to people. I’m not giving them some fake utopia. I’m not telling them it’s easy. If it was easy, everyone would do it. But you don’t fight the fights you can win, you fight the fights that need fighting. That’s the most important part.” – Immortal Technique
6. “Just because I choose to question religion doesn’t mean that I’m spitting in God’s face; it’s the opposite. I’m tired of people spitting in God’s face. I’m tired of seeing these divisions over a different type of Christianity, over a different type of Islam.” – Immortal Technique
7. “I think that when you look at history and when you look at these facts that shape nations and shape countries and give us present examples of how we’re supposed to live, we find more and more often that we’re not paying attention to what’s actually happening.” – Immortal Technique
8. “I see the world for what it is, beyond the white and the black.” – Immortal Technique
9. “If you go platinum, its got nothing to do with luck, it just means that a million people are stupid as fuck.” – Immortal Technique
10. “You cannot change the past, but you can change the future.” – Immortal Technique
11. “I’ve had some confrontations after I got out of prison and I’m proud of the fact that I dealt with them differently.” – Immortal Technique
12. “I hope one of my fans has one of your kids shot: and blames it on acid, prozac, and slipknot.” – Immortal Technique
13. “I think that some people from other regions expect us to be like that so I think they overcompensate for that sometimes and they’re victims to their own insecurity.” – Immortal Technique
14. “Read between the lines and free your mind.” – Immortal Technique
15. “I think that learning to read between the lines of traditional media is one way to stay informed, and also realizing that eventually you’re going to have to cross-reference all sorts of different information coming from different sources.” – Immortal Technique
16. “Hip-hop is about the human condition; it’s about people’s lives.” – Immortal Technique
17. “Universal truth is not measured in mass appeal, this is the last time I kneel and pray to the sky, cause almost everything I was ever told was a lie.” – Immortal Technique
18. “The purpose of life is a life with a purpose. So I’d rather die for a cause, than live a life that is worthless.” – Immortal Technique
19. “Your fans can’t just pop in whenever they want. I’m not gonna allow someone to just drop over my house whenever they want like, “Hey what’s up? I bought your album so what’s for dinner?”” – Immortal Technique
20. “The ‘king of hip hop’ is always the poster child for capitalism, no matter who it is.” – Immortal Technique
21. “I can’t imagine Revolution being quiet, unassuming, or bashful.” – Immortal Technique
22. “I think that as much as any leader is marketed we have to learn that unless we inject ourselves specifically and link our revolution to the economic struggle of our people and address those specific issues then we’re never really going to have control of what happens.” – Immortal Technique
23. “Love…doesn’t need a complicated metaphor And sometimes nothing needs to be said at all” – Immortal Technique
24. “A man who walks with God can walk anywhere. Hence, I fear nothing.” – Immortal Technique
25. “Changing the course of destiny, so I’m strapped with weaponry cause the government don’t give a f-k about protecting me.” – Immortal Technique
26. “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.” – Immortal Technique
27. “There was a lot of rebelliousness, without focus, in my younger years. And even when people ask me, “Oh you went to prison and you went to college for a couple years?” I’m like “Yeah, I learned more in prison than I think I ever learned in college.” That’s the sad truth.” – Immortal Technique
28. “Some artists think every woman is a groupie, and that every dude is a sucker, and I never looked at people like that.” – Immortal Technique
29. “I’m not trying to sell pipe dreams to people. I’m not giving them some fake utopia. I’m not telling them it’s easy. If it was easy, everyone would do it. But you don’t fight the fights you can win, you fight the fights that need fighting. That’s the most important part.” – Immortal Technique
30. “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.” – Immortal Technique
31. “The problem with always being a conformist is that when you try to change the system from within, it’s not you who changes the system; it’s the system that will eventually change you.” – Immortal Technique
32. “I have favourite songs for different things. The diversity of it is the strength.” – Immortal Technique
33. “I love the place that I live, but I hate the people in charge.” – Immortal Technique
34. “I’d rather be proud of what I am, rather than desperatly try to be something I’m really not; just to fit in.” – Immortal Technique
35. “Devils used to be God’s angels that fell from the top. There is no diversity cos we’re burnin in the melting pot.” – Immortal Technique
36. “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.” – Immortal Technique
37. “Those people who kill women, children, and defenseless civilians are about as Muslim as mass murderer Christopher Columbus was a Christian.” – Immortal Technique
38. “I’d rather be proud of what I am, rather than desperatly try to be something I’m really not; just to fit in.” – Immortal Technique
39. “I Freestyle my Destiny, It’s not written in Pages.” – Immortal Technique
40. “Using some economic issues to make one group of people, regardless of race or religion, the scapegoat for all the problems of the country is just the stupidest, and yet, the most creative propaganda scheme that you can come up with.” – Immortal Technique
41. “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.” – Immortal Technique
42. “I wasn’t always a revolutionary, I used to live life like a criminal even though I was going through high school or college, or the fact that I was smart, had no bearing on that. People can have intelligence all the way but have no direction. Not all criminals are idiots.” – Immortal Technique
43. “You will learn a lesson repeated through history, that no matter what you think, occupation is not victory!” – Immortal Technique
44. “People who have a conservative viewpoint both religiously and politically and they fear that the world is going to be thrown into perpetual communism.” – Immortal Technique
45. “Ignorance is venomous and it murders the soul, spreading like a virus, running rampant, out of control.” – Immortal Technique
46. “It doesn’t matter what race you are. It doesn’t matter what religion you are. I always tell people: If you want to be a part of hip-hop, you just need to have a heart. You need to have the courage to tell the truth.” – Immortal Technique
47. “True wealth is having your health, and knowledge of self.” – Immortal Technique
48. “Pessimism is an emotion not a philosophy.” – Immortal Technique
49. “My revolution is born out of love for my people, not out of hatred for others.” – Immortal Technique
50. “Rich people, they stay out of jail not just because they have more money but because they grew up in a culture where they’re educated by people to say, “I don’t have to talk to the cops. If I get arrested, I’m not going to say a word to them. I’m just going to wait until my family lawyer gets here”.” – Immortal Technique
51. “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.” – Immortal Technique
52. “A pretty face can capture my attention but only a beautiful mind can hold it.” – Immortal Technique
53. “People are educated into the fact that as a people we stand a better chance of knowing how to work the law if we know the history of the law and the history of our people’s relationship with it.” – Immortal Technique
54. “Hell is not a place you go if you’re not a Christian, it’s the failure of your life’s greatest ambition.” – Immortal Technique
55. “Your mind is your weapon. Load your weapon.” – Immortal Technique
56. “Write it down and remember that we never gave in, the mind of a child is where the revolution begins, so if the solution has never been to look in yourself, how is it that you expect to find it anywhere else.” – Immortal Technique
57. “I hate it when they tell us how far we’ve came to be; as if our people’s history started with slavery.” – Immortal Technique
58. “Read about the history of the place that we live in and stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children.” – Immortal Technique
59. “I just want to be remembered as someone who wanted people to think free and wanted people to be free, whether it’s at the end of the day, or at the end of the mortal coil.” – Immortal Technique
60. “You can’t stop a revolution from breathin’, so to beat ’em they offer people the illusion of freedom.” – Immortal Technique
61. “If you don’t have self-respect, if you don’t have dignity, if you don’t have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you’re coming from, then you’re absolutely lost.” – Immortal Technique
62. “Working your whole life wondering where the day went, the subway stays packed like a multicultural slaveship.” – Immortal Technique
63. “I feel my body weakening but my spirit is fine, ready to go to war with devils at the drop of a dime.” – Immortal Technique
64. “The business of beauty isn’t a natural model; It’s built to be the opposite of the cultures we topple. These magazines got you caught in a hustle, Cause when you starve yourself, your body doesn’t burn fat, it burns muscles.” – Immortal Technique
65. “I won’t trade humanity for patriotism.” – Immortal Technique
66. “The ‘king of hip hop’ is always the poster child for capitalism, no matter who it is.” – Immortal Technique
67. “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.”” – Immortal Technique
68. “You can make the future, but it starts with leaving the past.” – Immortal Technique
69. “In a world of regret, sacrifice and hardship, laughter and music are medicine.” – Immortal Technique
70. “Read between the lines and free your mind.” – Immortal Technique