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In the end, the overriding factor in whether or not you realize your dreams is going to be you. Not the world. YOU.

Russell Simmons

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
You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture.
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Black Needs People
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
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
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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Hip Hop Life Things
If you don’t break a hole through the brick wall, don’t just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall.
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Break Through Digging Wall
The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best
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Giving Happiness Keys
I think Hollywood is incredibly segregated. I’ve never seen any place like it. The gatekeepers who are the most progressive activists inspired to make the world better… they’re better people, right? They’re segregated. It’s self segregated in some cases, but there’s nobody Black in charge of anything in Hollywood.
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People Self Thinking
Happy can make you money, but money can’t make you happy.
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Happy Make Money
Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.
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Goal Simple Trying
Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice.
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Choices Gratefulness Practice
I couldn’t guarantee that someone could get off their medication. But I suspect that meditation instead of Ritalin would change the life of any kid with ADD.
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Guarantees Kids Meditation
But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.
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Black Poor Rich White
Stay in your lane. If you’re good enough, people will move to you.
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Enough Moving People
Everyone’s part of a team that develops over the years and gives people chances. There have been some good moments watching people develop.
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Chances Develop Everyone People
The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, (“to think”) and tra (“tool’). So the literal translation is “a tool of thought.”
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Buddhist Men Thinking

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