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Everyone’s goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.

Russell Simmons

I have faith in people and our government ultimately to do the right thing. And to my brothers and sisters in California, I’m there with you every step of the way until that day comes…
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Country Right Step Thing Until Come
I’m lucky that I have a platform that I can answer my own questions.
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Answers Lucky Platform
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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Believe English Men Speak
The always-connected culture isn’t as much a contributor as Grace might think. The nervous mind, the monkey mind, will create its own noise. It doesn’t need a new toy.
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Grace Mind Thinking
They’re lacking culture in Hollywood. That gives me a big up, right? I know something about pop culture.
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Culture Giving Hollywood
The world belongs to the people who say, ‘I can’.
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Belongs People World
You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture.
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Black Needs People
I applaud what the Oscars are doing to promote diversity. I think it’s great.
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Diversity Oscars Thinking
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
Whatever you chase will run away from you. So, stop chasing success and realize you already have it all.
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Chasing Realizing Running
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
The artists are now big brands.
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Artists Bigs Brands
Quiet time is the key. We have hundreds of thousands of kids around the country meditating through the David Lynch Foundation.
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Country Keys Kids
I am very lucky that I have talented and creative people around me. Also, mediation has been a very big part of my freedom, because it allows me to watch all the things going on and allows me to focus.
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Creative Focus People
If you aren’t passionate about a vision, it’s hard to have faith in it.
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Faith Passionate Vision
But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.
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Black Poor Rich White

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