Well, it’s the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money.
RUSSELL SIMMONSThere is a subject – there is a research that says a man thinks about sex every 12 seconds. And so when an artist expresses something that’s sexual in music it is a reflection of our reality. If we want that reality changed, then we have to do things that affect the core.
More Russell Simmons Quotes
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The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best
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It’s always marketeers building their own careers.
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I think Hollywood is incredibly segregated. I’ve never seen any place like it.
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Gangsta rappers, they call them. Not nearly as gangsta as the things that inspire them.. you know, a gangsta government that we operate under.
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I know a lot of angry liberals right now. Hell, I know a lot of angry vegans.
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You have to be able to say what people are thinking but won’t say. It’s like Donald Trump.
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When you give without reservation, you’ll become a magnet that pulls the world toward you.
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I don’t miss my prayers and I don’t miss my yoga. Those things are important to me.
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Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem, they always wanted the finer things in life.
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When you’re a good giver you’re a good getter.
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Never change for the mainstream—stay in your lane, and if you’re talented and resilient enough the mainstream will come to you.
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Whatever you chase will run away from you. So, stop chasing success and realize you already have it all.
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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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I’m not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.
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I want to talk a little bit abut two things: clarity and cloudiness. Both of them quiet the mind. One quiets it, the other numbs it. either way, there’s less thought, and the less thought, the more happiness.
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