I think if you’re open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you’re closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading.
RUSSELL SIMMONSWell, it’s the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money.
More Russell Simmons Quotes
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I don’t miss my prayers and I don’t miss my yoga. Those things are important to me.
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Learn to let your thoughts exist on their own without getting too involved in them.
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I can’t pay my [bills]. I can’t go to work. My car is out of gas.
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There is a subject – there is a research that says a man thinks about sex every 12 seconds. And so when an artist expresses something that’s sexual in music it is a reflection of our reality. If we want that reality changed, then we have to do things that affect the core.
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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.
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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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I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.
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I can’t get my medicine.
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There are no failures, only quitters.
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Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.
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I know a lot of angry liberals right now. Hell, I know a lot of angry vegans.
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Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don’t want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it’s the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare.
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A clear and focused mind will last a lifetime. Getting your mind in shape is nothing less than the key to sustainable success in the world.
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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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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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