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Russell Simmons

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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People Rap White
It is only through opening your hearts will you be able to see that by promoting freedom for all, you are unchaining yourself. I guess I’m an optimist.
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Brother Gay Heart
No matter what you’re doing, try to work at that task like it’s your dream job.
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Dream Jobs Trying
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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Benefits Favor Trying
The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat.
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Heartbeat Poetry Soundtracks
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.
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Anxiety Looks might
Meditation helps everything.
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Everything Helping Meditation
Mistakes only cost you when you don’t acknowledge them.
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Acknowledge Cost Mistake
Money doesn’t make u happy .. But happy makes you money.
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Happen Make Money
I had too many businesses that are frivolous. I have enough. What interests me most is under-served communities. We need a new style of empowering these people, and new approaches.
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Community Empowering People
Get your hustle on… Hard work is easy, working out is hard.
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Hard Hustle Out Work
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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Country Inspiration Writing
But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.
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Black Poor Rich White
I don’t like to say, Oh, this is my favorite record because there was a moment that that record made me feel a certain way. The one on the radio at the present moment could be the one that’s most inspiring, because it’s at that second that you’re aware of “the infinite everything.”
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Radio Records Way
Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
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Art Express Way Yourself
The greatest tool to eliminate the noise is meditation.
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Meditation Noise Tools
Give what you want to receive. If you want happiness, make others happy.
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Giving Happy Make Others Stay Strong
If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It’s a step process.
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People Process Steps
The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.
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Creativity Done Imagination
You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done.
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Business Entrepreneur People
I think the artist’s job throughout history has been to tell – to say things that people are inspired by.
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Artist Jobs Thinking
I try to use my voice. I know that celebrity is valuable, and people do listen.
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People Trying Voice
There’s something about the authenticity that Hollywood is missing when it comes to urban culture.
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Culture Hollywood Missing
I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.
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Animal Thinking Trying
Well, it’s the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money.
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Hands Movement Rights
Whatever you chase will run away from you. So, stop chasing success and realize you already have it all.
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Chasing Realizing Running
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.
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Anxiety Insomnia Thinking

You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture.

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