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.
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More Russell Simmons Quotes
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You have to be present, awake and happy now.
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I live in hip-hop. I don’t find it to be offensive.
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Meditation helps everything.
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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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You can be anything you want to be, and you can start today, instead of waiting for some opportunity.
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No matter where you’re from or what you’ve done, you’re never stuck in a particular circumstance, relationship, or cycle unless you say you are.
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The elected officials should be working for the voters who elected them. Money corrupts the process. Why would you be giving a candidate money unless you expect something in return?
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The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.
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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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As long as you are passionate about your vision, you should keep moving forward.
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There 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.
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An animal products diet is like smoking 20 cigarettes a day.
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Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.
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I just said let’s get some poets on tv. And when they said that sounded unlikely, I made it worse. I said, no man, I want to put a bunch of black poets on stage, too.
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Good givers are great getters.
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