I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.
RUSSELL SIMMONSIt’s all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap. If you want to be a lawyer, see yourself as a lawyer, go to the library and start learning the law. If you want to be a rapper, start rapping and get out there. Live your life as if you already are where you want to be.
More Russell Simmons Quotes
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I feel the choices our president Barack Obama is making now are safer and better.
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Mistakes only cost you when you don’t acknowledge them.
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Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.
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I was literally calling my customers who were complaining on social media and having a dialog with them, and sending them money.
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You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you… happiness is your natural state.
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Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you. If God gives you a bucket of fish, you have to distribute those fish. If you don’t, they’re going to rot, attract a bunch of flies, and start stinking up your soul.
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Not every move you make has to be a great leap
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A person’s strength is to know their weaknesses.
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Those who need nothing attract everything.
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Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.
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There’s something about the authenticity that Hollywood is missing when it comes to urban culture.
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The stuff I do, I do every day, and I’ve been doing it for long periods of time. I don’t start and quit-ever. I start and stay on it.
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I don’t want to wait for Hollywood to decide that what I do is good.
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I have a pilot called The Re-Education of Oliver Cooper starring the white kid from Project X where follows a black girl to a black university, like in Legally Blonde. I have so many fun projects.
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I think that’s what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it’s so honest.
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