I think that’s what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it’s so honest.
RUSSELL SIMMONSYou have to learn to laugh all the time. It’s a practice of life. It’s a practice of happiness.
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You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture.
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I’m a big supporter of President Obama.
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Meditation helps everything.
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It’s very simple: When you’re working your hardest, the world opens up to you.
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Urban pop culture is its own phenomena that is for some reason is left out of Hollywood. It’s the most mainstream thing there is.
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You will be a great entrepreneur if you operate with a real sincere wanting to serve.
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I don’t miss a day of yoga. I don’t miss my meditation… They’re way more important.
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I have a pilot called The Re-Education of Oliver Cooper starring the white kid from Project X where follows a black girl to a black university, like in Legally Blonde. I have so many fun projects.
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Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem, they always wanted the finer things in life.
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My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.
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If you run a corporation, your job is to maximize the return on investment for your investors. Good for you. But by the same token, we have to remember that corporations have no compassion. That’s why legislation and regulations are necessary.
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But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.
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A person’s strength is to know their weaknesses.
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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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There’s something about the authenticity that Hollywood is missing when it comes to urban culture.
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