No one wants to sell to just 12% of the population for the entire length of their careers. It creates a difficult and less-profitable environment. But Hollywood has lived with that limiting mantra, and only a few black stars have managed to break through.
RUSSELL SIMMONSYou will be a great entrepreneur if you operate with a real sincere wanting to serve.
More Russell Simmons Quotes
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You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture.
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They’re lacking culture in Hollywood. That gives me a big up, right? I know something about pop culture.
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I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.
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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 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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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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I’ve been thinking a lot about gay marriage. I’m a big supporter.
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Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.
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Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice.
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Money doesn’t make u happy .. But happy makes you money.
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People are afraid of failure – they don’t like to work so hard and have people keep saying, ‘No.’ I think that’s what people fear most.
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I don’t like to say, Oh, this is my favorite record because there was a moment that that record made me feel a certain way. The one on the radio at the present moment could be the one that’s most inspiring, because it’s at that second that you’re aware of “the infinite everything.”
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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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If you were elected president, would you publicly support special prosecutors in these cases and what is one other thing you would do to fix our broken justice system?
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