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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.

Russell Simmons

Hollywood is full of very liberal people, but it still has an infrastructure that needs to be broken.
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Broken Hollywood People
The best way to protect both the policemen and the community going forward is by creating a system that’s just, where everyone feels safe.
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Community Creating Safe
Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.
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Art Form Noise Stillness
It’s always marketeers building their own careers.
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Building Careers
Stay in your lane. If you’re good enough, people will move to you.
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Enough Moving People
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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Broken Color Justice
The research shows that if you meditate, the mind becomes still, and they can see the functionality and gray matter in the brain increase, the nervous system calm, the immune system improve and a reduction in stress.
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Brain Gray Matter Stress
Never pass up any opportunity to share your gifts with the world.
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Opportunity Share World
I can’t pay my [bills]. I can’t go to work. My car is out of gas.
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Bills Car Pay
Give what you want to receive. If you want happiness, make others happy.
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Giving Happy Make Others Stay Strong
The difference between blues, jazz, rock n’ roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It’s scarier to look at poor people; it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug.
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Pain Rap Rock
I don’t know that God favors the person who has a greater reach than those who have a small reach. It’s the intention. I try to keep a positive intention, and use whatever resources I have to benefit others.
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Benefits Favor Trying
Get unstuck from whatever it is you perceive is holding you back from realizing your dreams.
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Dream Perceive Realize
But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.
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Black Poor Rich White
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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Kids Running Want
I’m lucky that I have a platform that I can answer my own questions.
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Answers Lucky Platform

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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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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