black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

No matter where you’re from or what you’ve done, you’re never stuck in a particular circumstance, relationship, or cycle unless you say you are.

Russell Simmons

They’re lacking culture in Hollywood. That gives me a big up, right? I know something about pop culture.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Culture Giving Hollywood
The reason I got a break in Hollywood when I moved here a few years ago is my good buddy, who I was on the beach with when he was a publicist, is now the chairman of HBO.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Beach Hbo Years
Mistakes only cost you when you don’t acknowledge them.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Acknowledge Cost Mistake
I used to think anxiety and insomnia drove me to success, but it was the stillness that let me be good at anything. When you extend the seconds of stillness, that’s when you’re able to think and learn.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Anxiety Insomnia Thinking
My wife Kimora once told me while we were watching “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” that it’s a vegetarian movie because the way that the woman was screaming, “Aaaahhh,” and trying to run away is how every animal you eat reacted at the slaughterhouse.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Animal Running Texas
Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Goal Simple Trying
That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Complete Intention Oscars
I was literally calling my customers who were complaining on social media and having a dialog with them, and sending them money.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Calling Complaining Media
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…
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Country Right Step Thing Until Come
You have to be able to say what people are thinking but won’t say. It’s like Donald Trump.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Able People Thinking
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.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Broken Color Justice
Meditation helps everything.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Everything Helping Meditation
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

Artist Creative Culture
The stuff I do, I do every day, and I’ve been doing it for long periods of time. I don’t start and quit-ever. I start and stay on it.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Long Running Stuff
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

Hurt Laughing People
I think Hollywood is incredibly segregated. I’ve never seen any place like it.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Hollywood Incredibly Thinking

No matter where you’re from or what you’ve done, you’re never stuck in a particular circumstance, relationship, or cycle unless you say you are.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

No matter where you’re from or what you’ve done, you’re never stuck in a particular circumstance, relationship, or cycle unless you say you are.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Russell Simmons Quotes