If you were elected president, would you publicly support special prosecutors in these cases and what is one other thing you would do to fix our broken justice system?
RUSSELL SIMMONSThe best way to protect both the policemen and the community going forward is by creating a system that’s just, where everyone feels safe.
More Russell Simmons Quotes
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I feel the choices our president Barack Obama is making now are safer and better.
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But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.
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Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.
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I am very lucky that I have talented and creative people around me. Also, mediation has been a very big part of my freedom, because it allows me to watch all the things going on and allows me to focus.
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I think that diversity is key for the next American entrepreneurs. They want to be a part of this society where there is so much diversity they have to have people from all the experiences.
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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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There’s something about the authenticity that Hollywood is missing when it comes to urban culture.
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When the mind is totally still, there’s only bliss. I got a piece of that reality from my first yoga class, from smiling and breathing in every difficult pose. I went, “Oh my God! I’m clear! I love this!”
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Learn to let your thoughts exist on their own without getting too involved in them.
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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.
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There are no failures, only quitters.
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Meditation helps everything.
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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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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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The greatest tool to eliminate the noise is meditation.
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