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Well, it’s the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money.

Russell Simmons

People are afraid of failure – they don’t like to work so hard and have people keep saying, ‘No.’ I think that’s what people fear most.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

People Saying Thinking
When you give without reservation, you’ll become a magnet that pulls the world toward you.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Giving Reservations World
The politicians already in office don’t want to change. A few might have it in their hearts to change and to start working for the people, but even some of the most progressive politicians are silent because they know that the candidate with the most money wins.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Heart Office Winning
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
I couldn’t guarantee that someone could get off their medication. But I suspect that meditation instead of Ritalin would change the life of any kid with ADD.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Guarantees Kids Meditation
The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Community Hard Reflection Work
I applaud what the Oscars are doing to promote diversity. I think it’s great.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Diversity Oscars Thinking
An animal products diet is like smoking 20 cigarettes a day.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Animal Cigarette Smoking
I don’t miss a day of yoga. I don’t miss my meditation… They’re way more important.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Meditation Missing Yoga
No matter what you’re doing, try to work at that task like it’s your dream job.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Dream Jobs Trying
The elected officials should be working for the voters who elected them. Money corrupts the process. Why would you be giving a candidate money unless you expect something in return?
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Canditate Giving More Process
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.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Believe English Men Speak
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

Circumstance Done Matter
There are poor white people who hear rap music and feel it is about them, because it is. That’s why you have an Eminem and a Bubba Sparxxx and rappers like that.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

People Rap White
Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Art Express Way Yourself
When you sit quietly and look inside, things that seem so difficult on the outside become a lot easier to digest. Concerns that might’ve caused a lot of anxiety just come and go.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Anxiety Looks might

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