I try to use my voice. I know that celebrity is valuable, and people do listen.
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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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I applaud what the Oscars are doing to promote diversity. I think it’s great.
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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.
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I was literally calling my customers who were complaining on social media and having a dialog with them, and sending them money.
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Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.
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I think I’m less afraid of failure than some others.
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That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.
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A large portion of American citizens, especially people of color, have lost confidence in our criminal justice system. Many have called for appointing special prosecutors when a police officer kills or injures a civilian.
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It’s all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap. If you want to be a lawyer, see yourself as a lawyer, go to the library and start learning the law. If you want to be a rapper, start rapping and get out there. Live your life as if you already are where you want to be.
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Happy can make you money, but money can’t make you happy.
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I think it’s very important. I’ve gone into prisons to meditate with inmates. It’s something I plan to do with Tim Robbins soon.
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I feel the choices our president Barack Obama is making now are safer and better.
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And the more people meditate, the more it increases the positive vibrations turning the planet into a positive, happy place. The more you do that, the greater service you are to God.
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I live in hip-hop. I don’t find it to be offensive.
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Everyone’s goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.
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I’m always surrounded by smart talented people. I had talented partners. Stan Latham for one. Talent scouts.
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Those who need nothing attract everything.
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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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When the mind is totally still, there’s only bliss. I got a piece of that reality from my first yoga class, from smiling and breathing in every difficult pose. I went, “Oh my God! I’m clear! I love this!”
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Learn to let your thoughts exist on their own without getting too involved in them.
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A poet or a comedian can say what’s on the mind of people. They should be funny. They should make you laugh. It may be so truthful that it hurts, but it makes you laugh.
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If you run a corporation, your job is to maximize the return on investment for your investors. Good for you. But by the same token, we have to remember that corporations have no compassion. That’s why legislation and regulations are necessary.
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The artists are now big brands.
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My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.
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Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.
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Mistakes only cost you when you don’t acknowledge them.
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