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Everyone’s part of a team that develops over the years and gives people chances. There have been some good moments watching people develop.

Russell Simmons

I think Hollywood is incredibly segregated. I’ve never seen any place like it.
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Hollywood Incredibly Thinking
It’s very simple: When you’re working your hardest, the world opens up to you.
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Entrepreneur Open Simple World
But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.
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Black Poor Rich White
As long as you are passionate about your vision, you should keep moving forward.
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Long Moving Vision
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 I’m less afraid of failure than some others.
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Afraid Failure Inspirational Running Thinking
Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.
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Country Inspiration Writing
There are no failures, only quitters.
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Failure No Quitter
When you sit quietly and look inside, things that seem so difficult on the outside become a lot easier to digest. Concerns that might’ve caused a lot of anxiety just come and go.
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Anxiety Looks might
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.
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Pain Rap Rock
I can’t pay my [bills]. I can’t go to work. My car is out of gas.
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Bills Car Pay
Last year my wife got a Rolls-Royce.
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Lasts Wife Years
Stay in your lane. If you’re good enough, people will move to you.
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Enough Moving People
That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.
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Complete Intention Oscars
I don’t want to wait for Hollywood to decide that what I do is good.
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Hollywood Waiting Want
There’s one overriding issue, namely, that we live in a police state so long as the police get to police themselves. And that is why cops go unindicted.
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Issues Long Police

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