Words matter. These are the best Charlamagne tha God Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
With the success of ‘Black Privilege,’ of course, the book publishers wanted me to come with another book immediately. They came with the check, but I don’t do things for money.
I’m black, and I don’t support Donald Trump in any way, shape, or form.
I realized that therapy helps me explain what I’m feeling better.
It’s always cool when you get immortalized on records. I am just happy that I have gotten to the level where rappers who can actually rap say my name in records, regardless if it’s a diss or not.
I’ve been doing radio since I was 18, and I’ve been unemployed four times from radio for various reasons.
If I see a police officer behind me, and I can pull over into, like, a shopping center or something, I do it.
When I’m sitting around, I’m thinking about how I can make my next professional career move, but more than anything, I’m thinking about the meaning of life and how fleeting it is.
America used to say that hip-hop was a cancer. Then it embraced that cancer and realized, ‘Hey, this isn’t a bad thing. It is part of us, just more America.’
I just remember saying to myself, ‘I want to be a super jock.’ I don’t want to be just some radio personality in some town somewhere doing the time and temperature and the latest song.
Kanye West does not represent all black people.
In America, a black man has to feel like he’s God just to make it a little bit when white people can just feel human. They can just be themselves, but for me, I feel we have to start instilling that back into our people. That pride. That black power. That privilege to be alive.
I have had anxiety literally my whole life.
When I have anxiety attacks, I always think I’m having a heart attack.
I grew up in a rural area. Books are what helped me transcend my circumstances.
If you live for the compliments, you’ll die by the criticism.
I feel and take in people’s energy. Sometimes, I feel the pain of other people.
That’s what people don’t understand: whatever you do in life, you have to be consistent at it because that’s when you’ll reap the rewards from it.
The majority of my problems stem from other people’s issues, but when you’re a leader or somebody that people look to for guidance or to be a shoulder to lean on, you got to be strong enough to hold all that weight.
I felt like people who had a lost mindset or who occasionally did stupid things were having a ‘donkey’ moment, or some of them are permanent donkeys, so I just started calling them donkeys. So when I went to Philly to do my own morning show, that’s when I first started doing ‘Donkey of the Day.’
I think, in a lot of ways, Kanye’s superpower is his weakness – if you tell him he can’t do something, he’s going to go hard at it.
I think black men especially should go to therapy and seek out mental help, because we need it. Even if you don’t think you need it, we need it.
There’s nothing like seeing your floor clear because you organized and cleared the space of all that clutter. That’s how I feel when I go to my therapist.
If you’re family to me, you’re gonna always be family to me.
I don’t want to be the guy who’s 50-something years old sitting in front of a microphone with my beard dyed black and my hat on backwards, yo-yo-yoing.
One day, I got beat up, and my glasses, which were crooked already, got shattered on the ground. That’s when I said, ‘Okay, enough.’ I became like Batman. I decided to thug myself out, all the way.
Being gay is not a crime.
Self-help is something that I’ve always been into. I thought I was going to be a psychiatrist.
I’m a Remy Martin guy. I like Remy and Coke, and I like the white Remy V with pineapple. I’m an equal-opportunity Remy drinker.
If I was a white rapper, the bar for me would be Eminem. Of course his white skin helped him excel to heights that a lot of other rappers couldn’t, but he still was talented. People gravitated towards him because of his skills. He stood the test of time.
I think everybody has the right to be who they are and not be chastised.
It’s a privilege and honor to write and star in my own comic. I can officially cross that off the bucket list!
I pride myself on being the nicest person in the room or being the nicest person to people.
My job is to benefit the listeners first and foremost, entertain the listeners first and foremost, and to get ratings. You can’t get ratings without listeners. So I wanna do things that the listeners enjoy, even though you may hate me for it or you may love me for that.
I’m a big believer in evolution, growth, and in being the best you that you can be, and I feel like the first step to doing that is getting mentally healthy.
The thing with racism is it’s rare you can really prove racism.
Contrary to popular belief, all I want to do is empower people.
Black people are the only ones told to love our oppressors. I hate that. We’ve been loving our oppressors for a long time, and nothing has changed – that love has to be reciprocated.
Everything starts with a thought. Your thoughts become things, and anything that your mind can conceive, you can achieve.
If something is on my mind, I’ve got to get it out. I can’t front, for lack of a better term.
I ain’t got no rhythm.
You have to empower yourself.
I feel like we’re in the era now where politics is pop culture. Everybody has an opinion that’s politically based. We see what the Trump administration has done, and I’ve never seen my culture this engaged in the political process.
All I have are my experiences, and I like to share my experiences to see if people could learn from them.
One thing I’m not doing in my older age is explaining myself to culturally clueless white people.
Your passion is that one thing you can’t stop thinking about, that thing you wake up thinking about in the morning, go to sleep thinking about at night, that thing that you would do for free!
I basically got into the radio game ’cause I was looking to do something positive with my life.
I am definitely not sitting down with Jason Whitlock because I don’t think he is willing to learn. He is fat and 50. There ain’t no changing the mind of a fat, 50-year-old person.
Be nice to everyone you meet, including janitors, receptionists, and everyone.
I don’t know how me having a conversation with Tomi Lahren all of a sudden turned into me hating black women.
I bet you my body is three-quarters Red Bull.
Kanye is always going to be Kanye. He is always going to be outspoken. He’s always going to say exactly how he feels.
God gave you the privilege of this thing called life, so regardless of what this society tells you that you can’t do and what you don’t have to, understand you lack nothing. God gave you everything you need to succeed.
I think forgiveness is overrated, personally, because some things people do are unforgivable.
People still knew me as Charles, so when I came across Charlemagne in a history book, that sounded good: Charles the Great, a warrior who used his power to spread religion and education. He was the head of the Carolingian dynasty, and with me being from South Carolina, that clicked.
I love when white people use their privilege to combat prejudice.