Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.
RUSSELL SIMMONSAntisemitism is just another form of racism. It’s the same sickness, whether it’s about Christians, about Islamophobia, which is horrible. It’s all wrong. It’s all the same.
More Russell Simmons Quotes
-
-
I mostly eat healthy. I just do. I’m not a vegan for health reasons – although obviously I’m 20 pounds lighter than when I started. I stayed 20 pounds lighter. I feel better. My friends say I look better. All that’s true. But I’m a vegan for compassionate reasons.
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.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
If you don’t break a hole through the brick wall, don’t just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
I live in hip-hop. I don’t find it to be offensive.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
I always say neediness is the cause of suffering. I’m not the only one who says it. It’s something I adopted and I believe.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
Give what you want to receive. If you want happiness, make others happy.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
Stay in your lane. If you’re good enough, people will move to you.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
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.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
Antisemitism is just another form of racism. It’s the same sickness, whether it’s about Christians, about Islamophobia, which is horrible. It’s all wrong. It’s all the same.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
I don’t use my brain about the creative thing. From a business standpoint, I instinctively do things: when I get something right, it’s never because I use my brain.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
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.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
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.”
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
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.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
Hollywood is full of very liberal people, but it still has an infrastructure that needs to be broken.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
It is only through opening your hearts will you be able to see that by promoting freedom for all, you are unchaining yourself. I guess I’m an optimist.
RUSSELL SIMMONS






