I live in hip-hop. I don’t find it to be offensive.
RUSSELL SIMMONSThe world belongs to the people who say, ‘I can’.
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I would like to employ more people but I don’t want to empower my charities at the cost of exploiting people or doing things that are not useful, so I’m working on that.
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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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Meditation helps everything.
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Everything you need to know about success is inside of you, because I believe it is inside of all of us. That is, all human beings have potential for infinite success.
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American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.
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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.
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Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.
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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.
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Everyone’s goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.
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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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Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.
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There’s one overriding issue, namely, that we live in a police state so long as the police get to police themselves. And that is why cops go unindicted.
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I’m always surrounded by smart talented people. I had talented partners. Stan Latham for one. Talent scouts.
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The biggest impediment to get the laws changed was the lobbyists. Whether you’re talking about healthcare, jobs going overseas, or tax reform, you’re always coming up against lobbyists.
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I’m a full disclosure kind of person.
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