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If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It’s a step process.

Russell Simmons

I had too many businesses that are frivolous. I have enough. What interests me most is under-served communities. We need a new style of empowering these people, and new approaches.
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Community Empowering People
I don’t miss a day of yoga. I don’t miss my meditation… They’re way more important.
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Meditation Missing Yoga
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.
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Break Career Stars Through
Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you. If God gives you a bucket of fish, you have to distribute those fish. If you don’t, they’re going to rot, attract a bunch of flies, and start stinking up your soul.
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Buckets Giving Soul
The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat.
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Heartbeat Poetry Soundtracks
I know a lot of angry liberals right now. Hell, I know a lot of angry vegans.
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Hell Now Right Vegan
I’m not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.
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Communities People Suffering
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
I’m lucky that I have a platform that I can answer my own questions.
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Answers Lucky Platform
Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.
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Educational Knowledge Running
I kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what’s on people’s minds and I don’t think it’s any different now.
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Artist Different People Sharing Thinking
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
Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.
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Goal Simple Trying
You’ve got to do things that promote what’s important.
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Important Promote Things
I applaud what the Oscars are doing to promote diversity. I think it’s great.
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Diversity Oscars Thinking
I want people to be free and to be able to express themselves, to find the best ways to say things so that people can digest them.
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Express Free Hope People Themselves

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