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The old world is quickly disappearing, and the new opportunities are opening up.

Russell Simmons

I try to use my voice. I know that celebrity is valuable, and people do listen.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

People Trying Voice
I don’t want to wait for Hollywood to decide that what I do is good.
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Hollywood Waiting Want
I mostly eat healthy. I just do. I’m not a vegan for health reasons – although obviously I’m 20 pounds lighter than when I started. I stayed 20 pounds lighter. I feel better. My friends say I look better. All that’s true. But I’m a vegan for compassionate reasons.
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Better Feel Healthy Looks
I think when you’re very dedicated to something and you’re engaged fully, you become a giver.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Dedicated Giver Thinking
Never pass up any opportunity to share your gifts with the world.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Opportunity Share World
But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Black Poor Rich White
The best way to protect both the policemen and the community going forward is by creating a system that’s just, where everyone feels safe.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Community Creating Safe
American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Democracy People Sight
I’m lucky that I have a platform that I can answer my own questions.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Answers Lucky Platform
I feel the choices our president Barack Obama is making now are safer and better.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Choices Feels President
The difference between blues, jazz, rock n’ roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It’s scarier to look at poor people; it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Pain Rap Rock
Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don’t want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it’s the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare.
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Ballet Country People Suffering
There’s something about the authenticity that Hollywood is missing when it comes to urban culture.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Culture Hollywood Missing
I can’t get my medicine.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Health Issue Medicine
There are poor white people who hear rap music and feel it is about them, because it is. That’s why you have an Eminem and a Bubba Sparxxx and rappers like that.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

People Rap White
Well, it’s the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money.
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Hands Movement Rights

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